Reinette

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The 'Reine des reinettes' apple
'Reinette Clochard' (pictured) together with 'Golden Delicious' are considered the parents of the 'Chantecler' apple.

Reinette (French for Little Queen), often Rennet in English, and popular in Italian and Portuguese cuisines as Renetta and Reineta respectively, is the name of a number of apple cultivars.[1][2]

Cultivars

References

  1. ^ Dictionnaire de pomologie - André Leroy - 1873 - 84 Reinette varieties
  2. ^ Engelbrecht, Deutschlands Apfelsorten, 1889
  3. ^ Home Orchard Society, Apple Bloom Periods (2006), page32.