Applevariety
Reinette Simirenko
Also known as Reinette de Simirenko +11
Reinette de Simirenko · Reinette Verte de Simirenko · Reinette Verte Incomparable · Renet Filibera · Renet P. F. Simirenko · Renet Simirenko · Simirenko · Simirenkova Reneta · Wood's Greening · Wood's Grunling · Zelenyi renet Simirenko · Zeleomi renet Simirenko
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed faint brownish orangeSkin texture waxyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 60-70 mmFruit height 52-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet in cavity, russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Reinette de Simirenko, Reinette Verte de Simirenko, Reinette Verte Incomparable, Renet Filibera, Renet P. F. Simirenko, Renet Simirenko, Simirenko, Simirenkova Reneta, Wood's Greening, Wood's Grunling, Zelenyi renet Simirenko, Zeleomi renet Simirenko
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 60-70 mm
- over colour
- flushed faint brownish orange
- russet type
- russet in cavity, russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 52-62 mm
- skin texture
- waxy
- flesh texture
- moderately tender and crisp
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.