Reinette de Versailles
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in about 1730 in Champagne, France. Fruits have rather soft, dry, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very high
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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