Applevariety
Reinette Courthay
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour a little streaked pale orange-redSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 70-84 mmFruit height 60-71 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern rough russet in cavity and on base, russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70-84 mm
- over colour
- a little streaked pale orange-red
- russet type
- rough russet in cavity and on base, russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 60-71 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.