Orleansrenette
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| Art | Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) |
| origin | probably France |
| known since | before 1800 |
| List of apple varieties | |
The Orleansrenette is a variety of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica). Synonyms are Reinette von Orleans , Reinette d'Orleans (after André Leroy ) and Pepping von Holland.
The Orleansrenette , although more common in Germany, is probably of French origin and is also more common in Belgium (in the province of Brabant ). The apple variety grown in all of Germany, however, is a rare lover places for home gardening. According to new findings from LOGL (Eckhard Fritz), the variety has nothing to do with the city of Orleans (otherwise it would have to be called Orleans Renette ), but the name comes from the color Annatto .
fruit
The variety is a tasty table and commercial apple .
The medium-sized, rounded and regular fruits of the winter apple are ripe for consumption from November to February . Their shell is green-yellow to golden-yellow and has a carmine-red coating of varying thickness on the sunny side. The coating is faintly striped. Characteristic are the brown-red, surrounded by a yellow halo, and numerous peel points ( lenticels ). The fruit has no particular smell.
The pulp is not too firm, juicy, with a bit of lemon flavor and sweet.
tree
The variety grows stronger when young and forms a beautiful high stem . When old, the broad, pyramidal tree does not grow too big, but it is productive.
Vulnerabilities
The foliage of the variety is prone to powdery mildew . Overall, the variety is very susceptible to scab , apple aphids , aphids and fruit maggots.
particularities
The variety is not identical to the American variety 'Orleans'.
Web links
- Index card of the variety in the BUND-Lemgo fruit variety database
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Friedrich Adrian Diel : Attempt to systematically describe pome fruit varieties in Germany , 1806, p. 226
- ↑ a b Without author: color plates from the supplement of the illustrated weekly newspaper Nach der Arbeit , 1935–1956, plate no. 346
- ^ Eduard Lucas & Johann Georg Conrad Oberdieck : Ilustrites Handbuch der Obstkunde, first volume: Apfel Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1875, p. 159, no. 64