Applevariety
Reinette de Brucbrucks
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional faint orange flushSkin texture dryBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 63-74 mmFruit height 50-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body, base to apexRusset pattern russet patches and netting
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, sweet
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body, base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 63-74 mm
- over colour
- occasional faint orange flush
- russet type
- russet patches and netting
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 50-60 mm
- skin texture
- dry
- flesh texture
- firm, fine, tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.