The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Harberts Reinette

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

Thought to have originated in Westphalia, Germany. It was known before 1828. Fruits have fine, crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.

Sources

  1. Harberts Reinette (accession 1949 - 040), 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 (early october); the other names.