Applevariety
Reinette d'Anthezieux
Also known as Anthezieux +12
Anthezieux · Musi · Pomme Musi · Reinette Anthezieux · Reinette Babou · Reinette Baboud · Reinette Babout · Reinette d'Anthezieu · Reinette Demptezieu · Reinette Menou · Reinette Menoux · Reinette Musi · Renet Antezieu
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- semi-fine, tender
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional pink flushBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, conic, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed, especially at polesRusset pattern many grey dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed, especially at poles
- synonyms
- Anthezieux, Musi, Pomme Musi, Reinette Anthezieux, Reinette Babou, Reinette Baboud, Reinette Babout, Reinette d'Anthezieu, Reinette Demptezieu, Reinette Menou, Reinette Menoux, Reinette Musi, Renet Antezieu
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, conic, convex
- over colour
- occasional pink flush
- russet type
- many grey dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- flesh texture
- semi-fine, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.