The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Netherlands

Reinette van Ekenstein

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

Raised in about 1830 by Jhr. Albarda van Ekenstein, Appingedam, Netherlands. Fruits have firm, yellowish flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Reinette van Ekenstein
Where Reinette van Ekenstein came from.

Sources

  1. Reinette van Ekenstein (accession 1949 - 180), 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 september).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 188521 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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