Reinette de Lucas
syn. Lucas' Reinette, Lucas's Reinette, Reinette Lucas
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have been raised in Belgium by de Jonghe. Recorded in 1872. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine, creamy white flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to sometimes intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 47-55 mm
- Over colour
- almost covered deep red flush, some streaks
- Russet type
- russet dots, russet on base
- Flesh colour
- creamy white, green core
- Fruit height
- 38-46 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly greasy, very tough
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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