Reinette de Metz
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in France. Described in 1934. Fruits have fairly fine, tender, white flesh with a sweet, subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Height
- 54.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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