Reinette du Canada or Canada Reinette is an old cultivar of domesticated
apple
An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...
of unknown origin grown in Europe under various names and listed in
France
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as a Canadian apple at least as early as 1771.
It is a
reinette type of golden apple, with much
russeting, which keeps shape in cooking and is mainly used for that purpose especially in
apple strudel.
[
Even today it is considered as the default russet apple of ]France
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, and is also known as the ''Reinette Blanche du Canada'' and many more names. ''Reinette Grise du Canada'' is probably also a sub cultivar of it, but this is not clear.[Reinette Grise du Canada]
by Orange Pippin
The fruit is tart and mostly used for cooking if picked early and used quickly; if stored for some time it gets softer and sweeter and is more often recommended for fresh eating. It blossoms approximately three days after the Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825 or 1830 at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox (horticulturist), Richard Cox.
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Typical size: width 83-87 mm, height 59-71 mm, stalk 11-17 mm.
*Reinette du Canada is triploid.
*S genotype S1 S2 S3
*Vitamin C 17 mg/100 gram
*Density 0.80
Chemical composition
Sugar 14.0-16.4%, acid 0.80-0.91%, pectine 0.74-0.77%.[Pomologia Republicii Populare Romine, 1964]
See also
* Golden Russet
References
External links
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Apple cultivars
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