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.Find 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