Reinette Verte (Basses-Pyrenees)

Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Accession No.
1948 - 273   fingerprint   check_circle

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from France. Fruits have fine, yellowish flesh with a very sweet and very perfumed flavour.

Accession name
Reinette Verte (Basses-Pyrenees)

Flowering time
9th May 10% flowering
13th May Full (80%) flowering
20th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Late October 1

Size
medium 1

Type
Dessert 1

Shape
Globose conical 1

Height
53.88 mm 1

Width
63.83 mm 1

Ribbing
weak 1

Crown
weak-medium 1

Ground Colour
Green yellow 1

Over Colour (Amount)
very low 1

Over Colour
Red 1

Over Colour (Pattern)
mottled/washed out 1

Russet
low 1

Coarseness
fine 1

Flesh Colour
Yellowish 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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