Reinette

This article is about the apple cultivars. For people named "Reinette", see Madame de Pompadour, Reinette Biggs, Reinette Klever, Reinette Liebenberg, and Reinette L'Oranaise.

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, in the Diel-Lucas and Diel-Dochnahl apple classification systems. Reinettes are divided into the following groups:

  • 1. One-Colored Reinettes, eg., Ananas Reinette, Reinette Franche, Rhode-Island Greening
  • 2. Red Reinettes, eg., Baumans Reinette, Jonathan
  • 3a. Gold Reinettes striped, eg., Blenheim Orange, Cox Orange Pippin, von Zuccalmaglios Reinette
  • 3b. Gold Reinettes blushed, eg., Court of Wick
  • 4. Gray Reinettes, eg., Brownless Russet, Roxbury Russet
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