Reinette van Ekenstein
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1830 by Jhr. Albarda van Ekenstein, Appingedam, Netherlands. Fruits have firm, yellowish flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- usually flat, rectangular, convex
- Flesh colour
- yellowish
- Skin texture
- thin, tough
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Oblong conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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