Applevariety
Ulmer Reinette
Also known as Unseldapfel
Unseldapfel
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Ulm/Baden-Wuttemberg, Germany
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes a golden or orange flushSkin texture smooth, greasyBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white, soon turns brown
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex or almost straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-69 mmFruit height 46-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and occasional patches, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Ulmer Reinette began
Recorded origin
Ulm/Baden-Wuttemberg
Germany
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- synonyms
- Unseldapfel
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex or almost straight
- fruit width
- 54-69 mm
- over colour
- sometimes a golden or orange flush
- russet type
- russet dots and occasional patches, russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish white, soon turns brown
- fruit height
- 46-60 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, greasy
- flesh texture
- slightly soft
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.