Metzrenette
| Metzrenette | |
|---|---|
| Art | Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) |
| origin | Zennern |
| breeder | Georg Wilhelm Metz |
| Breeding year | around 1780 |
| Launch | around 1850 |
| ancestry | |
| List of apple varieties | |
The Metzrenette is a cultivar of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) belonging to the Renetten . The apple was discovered as a chance seedling in the village of Zennern near Wabern at the end of the 18th century and was named after its patron Georg Wilhelm Metz around 1850 . The apple has a greenish-yellow color and is clearly striped. The Metzrenette has light yellow pulp that is spicy like a renette and a noble aroma.
The variety was approved in 2011 by the Hessen Landesgruppe des Pomologen -verein e. V. elected Hessian local variety of the year .
history
It is thanks to the owner of the Kalbsburg manor near Borken , Georg Wilhelm Metz, that this apple variety has spread throughout the region. He had found and received it around 1850 in his birthplace Zennern (today part of Wabern). According to his information, the variety has existed there since around 1780. In 1890/91 he sent fruit to the well-known pomologist Theodor Engelbrecht , who named the variety after its discoverer and published a first pomological description. In 1895 a colored illustration was also published in the Pomological monthly booklet. Around 1920 the variety was listed in the sales range of the wholesale tree nurseries Mascher (Lippoldsberg) and Späth (Berlin). At Späth it was mentioned in catalogs in 1930. A test report by the Oberzwehren fruit research institute (near Kassel ) mentions the 'Metzrenette' in 1910.
In 2014 the variety appears only sporadically. In the vicinity of Riede (north of Fritzlar ) there is a larger group of 100-year-old trees. The variety is in the Brogdale variety collection in England, but incorrectly refers to the place Metz in France as ancestry.
Tree description
Location and vulnerability
The Metzrenette is undemanding in terms of soil and climate on sufficiently moist soils and strongly growing substrates , this applies up to medium altitudes. Bad locations encourage susceptibility to scab and fruit tree cancer . The strong growth, especially as a young tree, forms a beautiful crown. A regular cut is recommended.
Yield
The Metzrenette starts the yield late , but then delivers plenty of reliably good fruit. It is used as a table apple , but can also be used for other types of processing.
Maturity
The harvest takes place from the beginning to the middle of October, but the apple has to be stored until the end of December to be ready for consumption . Depending on the storage, the fruit can be kept until March, with good storage conditions ( CA storage ) even significantly longer.
Fruit shape
The Metzrenette is a medium-sized, rounded and somewhat blunted apple. The shape is slightly conical and slightly bulbous on the side of the stem. The sides are even and the halves are even.
Shell staining
The apple is smooth and slightly shiny, greenish-yellow in color, which later changes to gold-yellow. On the sunny side, a slight reddening and clear stripes develop. There are numerous lenticels that are fine to medium thick. Some of them have a slight reticulate russeting . The meat race does not wilt and its odor is faint.
Calyx side
The calyx pit is sunk to a medium depth, the calyx lies between flat and fine folds and is closed and wide. The sepals touch at the base, the calyx cavity is funnel-shaped and extends to about half of the axial cavity.
Stem side
The stem pit is medium to deep, wide, almost even and rusted brown. The stem is short, medium thick, woody and greenish-brown.
Pulp
The flesh is light yellow and sufficiently juicy. It is flavored like a reindeer with a "noble aroma" and a balanced sugar-acid ratio (see apple cider production).
Core house
The core is in the middle and is onion to egg-shaped. The axis of the core house is slightly open and quite spacious. The core house walls are bean-shaped and finely cracked. The kernels are fully developed, are medium-sized, ovate, short-pointed and brown.
swell
- Ms. Lucas: Pomological monthly books Volume 41, 1895, page 46 (with colored illustration)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hessian local variety 2011 Pomologists Association 2010 PDF 226 kB
- ↑ Theodor Engelbrecht : Pomological monthly books Volume 38, 1892, page 206/207
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