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Baumann's Reinette
type: Culinary, Dessert
synonyms: Bauman Reinette, Bauman's Reinette, Red Winter, Celerina, also Red Winter Reinette
summary: Rated by some as a moderately good tasting dessert apple, though extraordinarily handsome.
identification: The fruit is large, round to round-flattened, with faintly angular faces. The skin is smooth and yellowish green, washed red and marked with darker stripes on the sun-exposed side. Small russet lenticels and russet patches. The calyx is large and open, set in a deep and wide basin. The stem is slender and short, set in a wide and deep cavity, russetted with rays extending onto the shoulder.
characteristics: The flesh is faintly yellowish, very firm, coarse grained and crunchy. Very juicy, sweet-tart with a distinctive flavour of strawberries. Can be bland when not ripened fully.
origins: A chance seedling raised by Van Mons in Brussels (Belgium) in 1811. Named in honour of the Baumann Brothers, orchardists of Bollwiller (Bolwyller, Alsace) in the upper Rhine Valley of what is now northeastern France.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading. Spur bearer. Bears first fruit quite young.
progeny: Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
cold storage: Keeps up to four months but flavours mature after a month. Develops a greasy feel in storage.
harvest: Late in the fourth period.
notes: Resembles the Fameuse .
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 4
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