The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Heusgen's Golden Reinette (Bultitude)

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

Raised by Pastor Konrad Henzen at Elsen, Germany. It was named after pomologist Peter Heusgen and introduced in about 1877. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a pleasant flavour.

Sources

  1. Heusgen's Golden Reinette (Bultitude) (accession 1924 - 053), 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 (mid october).