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]

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

Cultivars edit

References edit

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