Reinette de Champagne

Reinette de Champagne, painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore in 1900 for the US Department of Agriculture. Deborah Griscom Passmore. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Champagne, France, about 1770
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Cooking
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium-large, flat fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour pink
Flesh: Greenish; firm
Flavour: Slightly sweet, slightly subacid
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Bien Attachee; Bovinski; Bumazhnyi renet; Champagne; Champagnei Renet; Champagner; Champagner Reinette; Champagner Renette; Champagner-Reinette; Champaigne Reinette; Drei Jahr dauernder Mutterapfel; Drei Jahre dauern der Mutterapfel; Furstlicher Tafelapfel; Gebirgs-Taffetiner; Glas Apfel; Glas Reinette; Glas-Reinette; Glasapfel; Glattapfel; Herrenapfel; Herrnapfel; Jahrapfel; Kapuziner; KapuzinerApfel; Kasapfel; Laskrieger; Loskrieger; Loskriger; Mariedl-Apfel; Marien-Apfel; Niederlandische Weisse Reinette; Pomme bien Attache; Pomme bien attachee; Rabenapfel; Reinette Bien Attachee; Reinette Blanche de Champagne; Reinette de France; Reinette de Friesland; Reinette de Frisland; Reinette de Versailles; Reinette Frisland; Reinette Plate de Champagne; Reinette von Versailles; Renet Bespodobnyi; Renet Bezpodobnii; Renet bumajhnyi; Renet Bumajnii; Renet de Champagne; Renet Sampanskii; Renet Sampanskij; Reneta Sampanska; Reneta Szampanska; Sampanska Reneta; Sampanskii renet; Schmalzapfel; Silberapfel; Soskrieger; Taffetapfel; Taffetinerapfel; Wachsrenette; Weissapfel; Weisse Versailler Reinette; Weisser Zwiebelapfel; Zweijahrling; Zwiebelapfel

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

Originated in about 1770 in Champagne, France. Fruits have firm, crisp, rather dry, greenish white flesh with a slightly sweet, slightly subacid flavour.

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Brettacher Samling × Jacques Lebel; Germany, 1900
Chusenrainer × Sauergrauschapfel; Switzerland, about 1852

Sources

Reinette de Champagne (accession 1948 - 667), 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 october); 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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