The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Belgium

Reinette de Lucas

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

Thought to have been raised in Belgium by de Jonghe. Recorded in 1872. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine, creamy white flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.

Sources

  1. Reinette de Lucas (accession 1949 - 044), 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, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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