Golden Reinette

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Origin

Bogdanoff estates in Russia, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 11.4 °Bx
Fruit height: 65.0 mm
Fruit width: 73.2 mm

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A fine old dessert apple of first-rate quality with a deep yellow skin tinged and streaked with red, featuring crisp, juicy, rich and sugary flesh. In use from November to April, the Golden Reinette is a healthy, vigorous, and abundant bearer that commands high prices in London markets and has been long esteemed in Britain since at least 1676.

Flavor & Texture

sweettartrichcrispjuicy

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Offspring

Kaiser Wilhelm Blenheim Orange Daniel Fele Renet Orleans Reinette Gem Gospatrick Harberts Reinette Beauty of Hants Reinette Descardre

Origin & History

Status: heritage
Known by: ≥ 1600

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References

USDA-NPGS: PI 383507
UK National Fruit Collection: 2367
Wikidata: Q12367693
Cited authority (Hogg 1851): Hort