Reinette de Macon
Also known as Allman grarenett +24
Allman grarenett · Allman laderrenett · Carpentin · Carpentiner (March) · Damason Reinette · Damason Renette · Double Reinette de Macon · Double Reinette de Mascon · Double-Reinette de Mascon · Laderrenett · Leder Reinette · Leder-Apfel · Leder-Reinette · Lederreinette · Rainette Double de Mazerus · Reinette Damason · Reinette Damson · Reinette de Damason · Reinette de Mascons · Reinette Double de Damason · Reinette Double de Maserus · Reinette von Damason · Renet Damason · Reneta Damazonska · Styryjskie slynne jablko skorzane
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, first recorded in 1628; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish-red flush and occasional stripesSkin texture somewhat rough, thick toughBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 60-80 mmFruit height 50-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern almost covered with russet
Origin & family
Where Reinette de Macon began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Allman grarenett, Allman laderrenett, Carpentin, Carpentiner (March), Damason Reinette, Damason Renette, Double Reinette de Macon, Double Reinette de Mascon, Double-Reinette de Mascon, Laderrenett, Leder Reinette, Leder-Apfel, Leder-Reinette, Lederreinette, Rainette Double de Mazerus, Reinette Damason, Reinette Damson, Reinette de Damason, Reinette de Mascons, Reinette Double de Damason, Reinette Double de Maserus, Reinette von Damason, Renet Damason, Reneta Damazonska, Styryjskie slynne jablko skorzane
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 60-80 mm
- over colour
- brownish-red flush and occasional stripes
- russet type
- almost covered with russet
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 50-64 mm
- skin texture
- somewhat rough, thick tough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.