lanke zoete Reinette.
Kaneelzoet (in the surroundings of the city of Gorinchem, The Netherlands).
Its origin is unknown, we received it from one of the local arborists in the Gorinchem area.
SHAPE: usually as illustrated, sometimes a bit lopsided.
SIZE: third grade.
EYE: open, with pointed, upstanding sepals, in a shallow, russeted and ribbed basin.
STALK: short, thick, crooked against the apple, almost no cavity.
The COLOUR is a somber yellowish green, golden-yellow at the sun side, sometimes with red-brown flames and black-brown lenticels, covered with a thin russeting.
The FLESH is fine, firm, sweet, pleasant, aromatic. The core is small, with large brown pips.
TIME OF USE: January - April; first grade for the kitchen.
The TREE is a excellent grower; twigs are upright, greyish dark brown, with small, grey and palpable lenticels; the buds are dull and variable in shape, flat; the leaf stalk is 30 - 40 mms long; the leaves are oblong and oval, pointed, sharply and irregularly serrated; the shoots are grey-brown and woolly.
The tree can only be recommended as a standard tree.