Reinette Franche

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Origin

France

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 15.5 °Bx
Titratable acidity: 6.22 g/L
Juice pH: 3.50

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Reinette Franche is a large, roundish-oblate dessert apple with smooth greenish-yellow skin covered in brown russet, ripening to pale-yellow and sometimes red when exposed to sun. The flesh is yellowish-white, tender, crisp, and juicy with a rich, sugary, musky flavor, in use from November to April. Highly esteemed in France as a premier variety, it commands similar regard as the Ribston and Golden Pippin in England.

Flavor & Texture

richsugarysweetfirm

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Reinette de Saintonge

Offspring

Esopus Spitzenburg Berner Rosen Reinette Clochard King of the Pippins Peasgood's Nonsuch D'Arcy Spice Calville Blanc d'Hiver Mabbott's Pearmain Parker's Pippin Nonsuch Park Reinette de Champagne Bonne-Hotture Chaux Christ's Gold Reinette Clemens Cravert de Bonde

Origin & History

Status: commercial
Known by: ≥ 1510

richsugarymusky

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 590137
UK National Fruit Collection: 5246
Wikidata: Q3423885
MUNQ ID: 278
Cited authority (Hogg 1851): Duh