Reinette Descardre
syn. Reinette Descadres, Reinette Descarde, Reinette Discardre, Renet Dekadr
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1820 by Benoit Descardre, nurseryman of Chenee, Belgium. Introduced in about 1834. Fruits have tender, pale yellow flesh with a sweet, subacid and perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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