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.

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.