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Reinette Grise de Portugal
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Origin unknown but recorded in 1798. Fruits have very fine, fairly tender, greenish yellow flesh with a sweet, subacid, perfumed flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Graue Portugi sische Reinette, Graue Portugiesische Reinette, Portugal Grey Reinette, Portugie sische Lederreinette, Reinette d'Allemagne, Reinette de Portugal
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green 2
- Russet
- high-very high 2
- Coarseness
- very fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1947 - 141
- Accession name
- Reinette Grise de Portugal
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019