Biesterfelder Renette
syn. Biesterfelder, Biesterfelder Gold Reinette, Biesterfelder Reinette, Biesterfeldská reneta, Reinette de Biesterfeld, Ren
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Castle of Biesterfelder, Lippe, Germany. Introduced in 1905. Fruits have fairly coarse, soft creamy white flesh with a sweet subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 69-83 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange and striped carmine
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 59-72 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- fairly coarse and soft
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 84.61 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 72.77 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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