Applevariety
Biesterfelder Renette
Also known as Biesterfelder +5
Biesterfelder · Biesterfelder Gold Reinette · Biesterfelder Reinette · Biesterfeldská reneta · Reinette de Biesterfeld · Ren
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, green-yellow skin, cream flesh. Picked in mid-September. Introduced in 1905. Sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft.
Origin · Castle of Biesterfelder, Lippe, Germany
Released 1905
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange and striped carmineSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 69-83 mmFruit height 59-72 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Biesterfelder Renette began
Recorded origin
Castle of Biesterfelder, Lippe
Germany
- Released
- 1905
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Biesterfelder, Biesterfelder Gold Reinette, Biesterfelder Reinette, Biesterfeldská reneta, Reinette de Biesterfeld, Ren
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 69-83 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange and striped carmine
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 59-72 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- fairly coarse and soft
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.