Reinette Grise de Billon
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 50.50mm 2
- Width
- 60.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Russet
- high-very high 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1948 - 217
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from France. Fruits have firm, fine, creamy white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Reinette Grise de Billon (Puy de Dome)
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering 17th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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