Applevariety
Reinette van Ekenstein
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong-conical in shape, raised in about 1830; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Appingedam, Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture thin, toughBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish
- Shape
- usually flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed
Origin & family
Where Reinette van Ekenstein began
Recorded origin
Appingedam
Netherlands
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- usually flat, rectangular, convex
- flesh colour
- yellowish
- skin texture
- thin, tough
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.