Applevariety
Reinette de Metz
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern mottled
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.