Applevariety
Reinette de Lucas
Also known as Lucas' Reinette +2
Lucas' Reinette · Lucas's Reinette · Reinette Lucas
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost covered deep red flush, some streaksSkin texture slightly greasy, very toughBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, green core
- Shape
- flat to sometimes intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 47-55 mmFruit height 38-46 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots, russet on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Lucas' Reinette, Lucas's Reinette, Reinette Lucas
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- flat to sometimes intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 47-55 mm
- over colour
- almost covered deep red flush, some streaks
- russet type
- russet dots, russet on base
- flesh colour
- creamy white, green core
- fruit height
- 38-46 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy, very tough
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.