Applevariety
Reinette de France
Also known as Court-pendu de Tournay +1
Court-pendu de Tournay · Reinette d'Orleans
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes orange flush, light red streaksSkin texture roughBackground colour dull greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 67-81 mmFruit height 51-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, sometimes on bodyRusset pattern russet over much of fruit
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, sweet, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- synonyms
- Court-pendu de Tournay, Reinette d'Orleans
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 67-81 mm
- over colour
- sometimes orange flush, light red streaks
- russet type
- russet over much of fruit
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 51-61 mm
- skin texture
- rough
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- dull greenish yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Reinette de France (Nord) apple, cross-sectioned. Synonyms: Court-pendu de Tournay, Reinette d'Orleans