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 the Diel-Dochnahl apple classification system.[1][2] 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
The 'Reine des reinettes' apple

Cultivars

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References

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  1. ^ Dictionnaire de pomologie - André Leroy - 1873 - 84 Reinette varieties
  2. ^ Engelbrecht, Deutschlands Apfelsorten, 1889
  3. ^ Home Orchard Society, Apple Bloom Periods (2006), page32.
  4. ^ Bjarne Larsen, A high throughput method for genotyping...... 2016
  5. ^ Wim Brothaerts, Update and Review of the..... HortScience 39(5):943-947
  6. ^ Elena Lopez-Girona, A high throughput S-RNase genotyping............ 2021
  7. ^ H. Muranti, Using Whole genome SNP data to reconstruct a large..... , 2020
  8. ^ Robert Hogg, The Fruit Manual, 1875
  9. ^ Matthew Ordidge, Genetic Analysis of a major international collection of cultivated apple varieties reveala previously...... , 2018