Baumann's Reinette

Baumann's Reinette, painted by Amanda Almira Newton in 1920 for the US Department of Agriculture. Amanda Almira Newton. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Belgium, by 1811
Raised by: Van Mons
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert, Cooking
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, flat fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour red, striped
Flesh: White; firm-very firm, coarse
Flavour: A little acid, faint aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Bauman's Reinette; Baumana; Baumann; Baumann renet; Baumann's; Baumann's Red Reinette; Baumann's Red Winter Pearmain; Baumann's Red Winter Reinette; Baumann's rote Winter Reinette; Baumann's rothe Winter; Baumann's rothe Winter Reinette; Baumann's rothe Winterreinette; Baumann's Winter Reinette; Baumann’s Reinette; Baumannova reneta; Baumanns Reinette; Baumanns Renett; Baumanns Renette; Baumanns Rote Winterrenette; Baumanns rother Winter Reinette; Baumanova reneta; Baumans rother Winter-Reinette; Couronne des Dames; Couronne des Dames d'Enghien; Krasnyi renet; Red Winter Reinette; Reinette Bauman; Reinette Baumann; Reinette Baumann's Rother Winter; Reinette Bollwiller; Reinette de Bollviller; Reinette de Bollwiller; Reinette de Bolwiller; Reinette de Bolwillers; Reinette de Bolwyller; Reinette rouge d'hiver de Baumann; Reinette rouge de Baumann; Renet Baumana; Renet Baumann; Reneta Baumana; Renetta Baumann; Rote Reinette; Roter Reinette; Rothe Winter

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Thought to have been raised in Belgium by Van Mons. It was dedicated to Baumann Brothers of Bouxwiller, Belgium. Recorded in 1811. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1878. Fruits are rather coarse textured, fairly juicy, a little acid with a faint aromatic flavour.

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Offspring in the atlas

John Divers × Jenkinson's Seedling; United Kingdom, 1905

Sources

Baumann's Reinette (accession 2000 - 017), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september); the other names.
Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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Offspring in the atlas

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