Reinette Marbree
Also known as a Caracteres +29
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A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- very sweet, not much acid, perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes slightly flushed redSkin texture roughBackground colour dull yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex, asymmetric
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern covered with reticulated russet and dots
Origin & family
Where Reinette Marbree began
Recorded origin
Netherlands
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very sweet, not much acid, perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- a Caracteres, Character, Character Apple, Character of Drap d' Or, Characterreinette, Charakter Reinette, Charakter-Reinette, Cimetiere, Concombre des Chartreux, de SaintJulien, Drap d'Or, Gestrichte Herbst-Reinette, Gestrickte Herbst Reinette, Gestrickte Reinette, Heilige Julian's Apfel, Julien, Karakter Reinette, Neetjes Apple, Netz Reinette, Pomme de Caractere, Pomme de Saint-Julien, Pomme de St. Julien, Reinette Brodee, Reinette Caractere, Reinette de Caractere, Reinette Drap d'Or, Reinette Filee, Reinette Valkenier, Saint Julian, Seigneur d'Orsay
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex, asymmetric
- over colour
- sometimes slightly flushed red
- russet type
- covered with reticulated russet and dots
- flesh colour
- whitish
- skin texture
- rough
- flesh texture
- compact, firm
- ground colour
- dull yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.