Applevariety
Reinette Verte (Basses-Pyrenees)
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Texture
- fine
- Flavour
- very sweet, very perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slightly flushed pinkBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish, veined green
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbedRusset pattern dotted and streaked with russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very sweet, very perfumed
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- slightly flushed pink
- russet type
- dotted and streaked with russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish, veined green
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.