Applevariety
Reinette Coulon
Also known as Coulon +9
Coulon · Coulon Reinette · Coulon Renette · Coulon's Reinette · Coulons Reinet · Coulons Reinette · Coulons Renette · Culon Reinette · Culons Reinette · Reinette Coulons
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Liege, Belgium
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly aromatic, little acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped dull redSkin texture rough, dryBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 70-80 mmFruit height 55-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet marking over all
Origin & family
Where Reinette Coulon began
Recorded origin
Liege
Belgium
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly aromatic, little acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Coulon, Coulon Reinette, Coulon Renette, Coulon's Reinette, Coulons Reinet, Coulons Reinette, Coulons Renette, Culon Reinette, Culons Reinette, Reinette Coulons
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 70-80 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped dull red
- russet type
- russet marking over all
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 55-60 mm
- skin texture
- rough, dry
- flesh texture
- fine, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.