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Reinette Verte (Basses-Pyrenees)
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 273
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 May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 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
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019