Applevariety
Wheeler's Russet
Also known as Reinette Grise de Wheeler
Reinette Grise de Wheeler
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in late October.
Origin · England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes flushed reddish orange flecked carmineSkin texture roughBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- variable, tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58-66 mmFruit height 51-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, sometimes on bodyRusset pattern much russet, with scaly patches and paler dots
Origin & family
Where Wheeler's Russet began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- synonyms
- Reinette Grise de Wheeler
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- variable, tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 58-66 mm
- over colour
- sometimes flushed reddish orange flecked carmine
- russet type
- much russet, with scaly patches and paler dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-61 mm
- skin texture
- rough
- flesh texture
- a little soft
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Wheeler's Russet apple, cross-sectioned. Synonyms: Reinette Grise de Wheeler