Adenaw’s Rambour-Reinette
type: Dessert
synonyms: Adenaw’s Rambour Reinette, Reinette d'Adenaw, Adenah
summary: This heritage cultivar from northern Germany is juicy, sweet and fine-grained.
identification: Medium tending to small. Round conic sometimes with angular faces. A yellowish-green or bright yellow base colour is washed red on the sun exposed face. Abundant lenticels are brownish and numerous. The stem is moderately heavy, but short and set in a deep and moderately wide, heavily russetted cavity. The calyx is partly open or completely closed, consisting of long, narrow leaves, set in a deep and wide basin.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, fine grained, crunchy. Juicy, spicy, winy and sweet.
uses: Primarily used as a table apple.
origins: Cultivated since the early 1800s in northern Germany's Palandt-Hildesheim region. First noted and described in 1875 in the Handbuch der Obstkunde (Handbook of Fruit Knowledge) compiled by Eduard Lucas und Johann George Konrad Oberdieck. There seems to be no record of its origins.
cultivation: Vigorous
cold storage: Keeps up to four months in cold storage.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
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