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Ananas Reinette
A small golden apple with a strong sweet-sharp pineapple flavour.
Origin: Netherlands, 1821
Pollination: Ananas Reinette is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
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History and description of Ananas Reinette
Ananas Reinette is an old variety probably of Dutch origin first recorded in 1821. Formerly grown in Germany where it was popular as a dessert and culinary apple as well as for juice.Small round fruit. Golden yellow skin with russet freckles. Attractive looking. Crisp, juicy, yelowish white flesh. Sweet sharp taste developing into a pineapple flavour as the name implies.
Moderately vigorous, upright, free spurring tree. Good cropper.
Characteristics of Ananas Reinette apple trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | Yellow |
| Flavour | Pineapple |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Early Oct |
| Season of use | Nov-Jan |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Upright |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Good |
| Special features | Good for Juice |
| Pollination date | 9 |
| Pollination group | C |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
| Progeny | Freiherr von Berlepsch |
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