Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Reinette de Waleffe is one of the finest old Belgian dessert apples. Its large fruit has exceptionally white, fine, firm and non-mealy flesh with an excellent balance of sweetness and acidity. The fertile tree adapts to different rootstocks, while the apples keep until March. Blossom is late, although the cultivar is not a reliable pollinator for other trees.

Reinette de Waleffe

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A highly-regarded traditional Belgian dessert apple with a good sweet / sharp aromatic flavour.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 2578 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Reinette de Waleffe is an old Belgian apple, thought to come from the village of Vieux-Waleffe, near the town of Liege in the region of Wallonia.

Reinette de Waleffe is highly-regarded as a dessert apple, with a fine-grained aromatic flesh and an excellent balance of sweetness and sharpness which is often the mark of a great apple. As you might expect it also produces a good quality juice.

The apples can be kept for 3 months or more in a cold store with little loss of quality.

Like many varieties originating in Belgium and northern France, Reinette de Waleffe flowers quite late, which helps it avoid the problems of late frosts.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old Belgian variety from Vieux-Waleffe, in the Liège Hesbaye, selected by the RGF-Gembloux network.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Reinette du Vieux-Waleffe

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Very fertile tree, traditionally grown as a standard but adaptable to different rootstocks

Disease behaviour

Scab

Low susceptibility on fruits, moderately susceptible on leaves

Powdery mildew

To be monitored

Canker

To be monitored

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

These varieties flower at a compatible time and are the most relevant matches in the catalogue. Flowering period: 4 - late.

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Harvest calendar

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Additional variety information for Reinette de Waleffe is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.