Reinette Coulon
syn. Coulon, Coulon Reinette, Coulon Renette, Coulon's Reinette, Coulons Reinet, Coulons Reinette, Coulons Renette, Culon Reinette, Culons Reinette, Reinette Coulons
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by nurseryman Coulon, Liege, Belgium. First fruited in 1856. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, yellowish white flesh with a sweet, little acid and slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly aromatic, little acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 70-80 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped dull red
- Russet type
- russet marking over all
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 55-60 mm
- Skin texture
- rough, dry
- Flesh texture
- fine, crisp
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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