Our Variety Assessment

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

Reinette Descardre is a good autumn variety for smaller gardens. Its apples have a clear balance of sweetness and acidity and are equally suitable for fresh eating and baking. The tree is best grown on a smaller rootstock or trained form. As a triploid and poor pollinator, it should be planted with two other compatible apple varieties nearby.

Reinette Descardre

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Reinette Descardre is a good quality Belgian dessert apple with a sweet fruity flavour.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

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: 1328 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Reinette Descardre is a good quality dessert apple. It is a late variety, ready for picking in late September, but unlike most late-season varieties it does not keep particularly well.

The apples have a firm flesh with a sweeet fruity flavor.

Reinette Descardre was raised in the 1820s by Benoit Descardre, a nurseryman from Chenee, near Liege in the French-speaking region of Wallonia in Belgium. It is found throughout Wallonia and also in neighbouring areas of northern France.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Belgian variety bred by Benoît Descardre at Chênée, reported in the 19th century and distributed as a good autumn reinette.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Reinette d’Espagne

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Strong vigour, long high scaffold branches that arch as the tree begins to crop

Disease behaviour

Scab

Fairly susceptible on leaves, very low susceptibility on fruits

Powdery mildew

Fairly susceptible

Canker

Susceptible

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

These varieties flower at a compatible time and are the most relevant matches in the catalogue. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Cox’s Orange Pippin View this variety Blenheim Orange View this variety Fuji View this variety

Lesdain Transparent View this variety

Harvest calendar

Extend your harvest season

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At the same time

September 15-30

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