Applevariety
Kinrei
Also known as Orei
Orei
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1932 and named in 1948; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- moderately sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour yellow
- Flesh
- pale cream
- Shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-64 mmFruit height 57-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Kinrei began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Kinrei’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Kinrei
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- moderately sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Orei
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Delicious
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 57-64 mm
- flesh colour
- pale cream
- fruit height
- 57-64 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.