Biology:Reinette du Canada

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Short description: Apple cultivar
'Canadian Reinette' apple
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'Reinette Grise du Canada',
probably a sub-cultivar
GenusMalus
SpeciesMalus pumila'
Hybrid parentageOld French cultivar
Cultivar'Canadian Reinette'
Origin France, before 1771

Reinette du Canada or Canadian Reinette is, despite its name, an old France cultivar of domesticated apple. 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.[1]

Even today it is considered as the default russet apple of France , and is also known as the Reinette Blanche du Canada[2] and many more names.[3] Reinette Grise du Canada is probably also a sub cultivar of it, but this is not clear.[1] Reinette du Canada, or whatever name it has, likely originated in Normandy, France and was first described in 1771.[3]

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 hence more recommended for fresh eating.[3] It blossoms approximately three days after the Cox's Orange Pippin.[4] Typical size: width 83-87 mm, height 59-71 mm, stalk 11-17 mm.[5][6][7]

  • Reinette du Canada is triploid.
  • S genotype S1 S2 S3
  • Vitamin C 17 mg/100 gram
  • Density 0.80[8]

Chemical composition

Sugar 14.0-16.4%, acid 0.80-0.91%, pectine 0.74-0.77%.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Reinette Grise du Canada by Orange Pippin
  2. Reinette du Canada at Orange Pippin
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Salt Spring Apple Company
  4. Garden Apple ID
  5. Warder, American Pomology,
  6. Downing, Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, 1885
  7. Beach, The Apples of New York, 1905
  8. Petzold Herbert Apfelsorten, 1990
  9. Pomologia Republicii Populare Romine, 1964

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