Applevariety
Reinette d'Anjou
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish red and red stripesSkin texture slightly tackyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white, green core line
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 63-74 mmFruit height 54-65 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges occasionally slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet dots, russet at base, sometimes on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- occasionally slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 63-74 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish red and red stripes
- russet type
- russet dots, russet at base, sometimes on body
- flesh colour
- creamy white, green core line
- fruit height
- 54-65 mm
- skin texture
- slightly tacky
- flesh texture
- firm, tender, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.