Description

• Harvest: Mid to late
• Description: Semi-spur bearer, large sized globose, conical shape fruit
• Skin: Orange-red on yellow background; red flushes dominate when the fruit is more exposed to sun and more yellow where it was shaded
• Flesh: Yellow-white
• Vigour: V2
• Flowering Group: 4
• Pollination: Triploid
• Taste: Crisp flesh with a sweet subacid flavour, a full-bodied citrus tasting apple
• Uses: Eating and cooking
• Background: One of Europe’s most famous old apples, as far back as the 1600’s. Possibly from France
• Synonyms: Golden Reinette and Reinette Dorée