Applevariety
Reinette Descardre
Also known as Reinette Descadres +3
Reinette Descadres · Reinette Descarde · Reinette Discardre · Renet Dekadr
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in about 1820 and introduced in about 1834; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in late September.
Origin · Chenee, Belgium
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium-large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Reinette Descardre began
Recorded origin
Chenee
Belgium
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- synonyms
- Reinette Descadres, Reinette Descarde, Reinette Discardre, Renet Dekadr
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.