Reinette Marbree
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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the Netherlands. Described in 1760. Fruits have compact, firm, whitish flesh with a very sweet and perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- very sweet, not much acid, perfumed
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex, asymmetric
- Over colour
- sometimes slightly flushed red
- Russet type
- covered with reticulated russet and dots
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Skin texture
- rough
- Flesh texture
- compact, firm
- Ground colour
- dull yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- medium-high
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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