Applevariety
Reinette de Plouerc
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely covered with purplish red flushBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 57-77 mmFruit height 49-65 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern rings of fine russet in basin, solid in cavity & sometimes on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-77 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely covered with purplish red flush
- russet type
- rings of fine russet in basin, solid in cavity & sometimes on base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 49-65 mm
- flesh texture
- tender, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.