The Reinette Simirenko is an antique apple variety. The fruit has tender, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavor.[1] It was the most widely grown variety in the Soviet Union.[2]
Cosmonauts took Reinette Simirenko into space,[3] lending popularity to the story that this variety originated in the garden of Ukrainian Leo Simirenko.[4]
References
edit- ^ Adelmann, Arllys (2001). Fruit, berry, and nut inventory. Seed Savers Exchange. p. 138. ISBN 9781882424573.
- ^ "Apples". California Farmer. 266. 1987.
- ^ "3 Acres of History Center Seeks to Preserve Rare Varieties of Apples". Los Angeles Times. 26 July 1987. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
- ^ Theordorson, George A.; K. Peter Etzkorn; Wsevolod W. Isajiw (December 1979). "Alex Simirenko" (PDF). Footnotes. 7 (9). American Sociological Association: 5.
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