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Reinette Grise de la Creuse
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 51.50mm 2
- Width
- 61.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- very low 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1950 - 177
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950 from France. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, pale cream flesh with a subacid, sweet and slightly aromatic flavour.
- Accession name
- Reinette Grise de la Creuse
- Flowering time ›››
- 15th May10% flowering
21st MayFull (80%) flowering
29th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019