Reinette du Canada or Canadian Reinette is, despite its name, an old
French
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** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
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cultivar of domesticated
apple
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus '' Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancest ...
. It is a
reinette
Reinette ( French for ''Little Queen''), often ''Rennet'' in English, and popular in Italian cuisine as ''Renetta'', is the name of a number of apple cultivars.
Cultivars
* Reine des reinettes
* Reine des Reinettes Rouge, diploid
Ploidy () ...
type of golden apple, with much
russeting, which keeps shape in cooking and is mainly used for that purpose especially in
apple strudel.
[
Even today it is considered as the default ]russet apple
Russet apples are varieties and cultivars of apples that regularly exhibit russeting, partial or complete coverage with rough patches of greenish-brown to yellowish-brown colour. While russeting is generally an undesirable trait in modern cultiv ...
of France
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, and is also known as the ''Reinette Blanche du Canada''Reinette du Canada
at Orange Pippin and many more names.
[ ''Reinette Grise du Canada'' is probably also a sub cultivar of it, but this is not clear.][Reinette Grise du Canada]
by Orange Pippin Reinette du Canada, or whatever name it has, likely originated in Normandy, France
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
and was first described in 1771.[
The fruit is tart and mostly used for cooking if picked early and used quickly; if stored for some time it gets softer and sweeter hence more recommended for fresh eating.][Salt Spring Apple Company]
/ref> It blossoms approximately three days after the Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825, at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox. Though the parentage of the cultivar i ...
.[Garden Apple ID]
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See also
* Golden Russet
References
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