The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Weidners Goldreinette

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

Raised in 1844 by Weidner, Gerasmuhle, near Nurnberg, Germany. Fruits have fine, tender, crisp, yellowish flesh with a rich, sweet, subacid flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Weidners Goldreinette Germany, 1844

Sources

  1. Weidners Goldreinette (accession 1947 - 330), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 590143 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

All 95 varieties from Germany