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Apple varieties, Belgium

Reinette Coulon

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

Raised by nurseryman Coulon, Liege, Belgium. First fruited in 1856. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, yellowish white flesh with a sweet, little acid and slightly aromatic flavour.

Reinette Coulon
Where Reinette Coulon came from.

Sources

  1. Reinette Coulon (accession 1958 - 058), 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.
  2. 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, triploid (supplementary table S1).

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