Reinette Blanche Hâtive Apple - Poster 50x70cm

Malus canicularis - Early White Reinette Apple

In the heart of the Versailles kitchen garden, this apple was long known as “Vrai drap d'or” before Poiteau restored its true identity. For though its skin turns from green to Calville white then to tender yellow, it never achieves the “dull golden yellow” that characterizes other varieties.

This Reinette stands out for its early ripeness and delicacy: it ripens as early as mid-August, while its cousins await autumn. A short-season fruit, it does not wrinkle like other Reinettes but should be consumed quickly, before its flesh becomes mealy.

The tree is vigorous and upright, forming beautiful full-standard stems. Its robust buds, slightly reddish and powdered with gray, bear oval, dark green leaves, downy on the underside.

The flowers are born in clusters of six, rosy and concave, carried on cottony peduncles.

The fruit, elongated and narrower at the top than at the base, measures 6 to 9 centimeters in height. The eye rests in a wide, flared cavity, remarkably regular. The thin, smooth skin, dotted with small greenish spots, remains immaculate except sometimes near the stem.

The white flesh, with a very fine grain, first releases a strongly acidic water that gradually sweetens to offer a very pleasant flavor. An excellent summer fruit, this Reinette keeps until the end of October but requires consumption at optimal ripeness.

This plate is taken from Pierre-Antoine Poiteau and Pierre Jean François Turpin's Traité des Arbres Fruitiers (Treatise on Fruit Trees), a botanical encyclopedia published between 1807 and 1835, a major reference in 19th-century naturalist illustration.

It combines the rigor of scientific drawing with a rare artistic sensibility, characteristic of the great plates from the golden age of illustrated botany.

• Each poster is printed using 12-color giclée printing, the benchmark for art workshops for rendering fine tones, subtle gradients, and the most delicate botanical details.
• 200 gsm paper, soft matte finish, 0.26 mm thickness: a rendering close to the original engraving, sharp, without reflections, designed for hanging.
• Printed on FSC certified paper, printed individually upon order.
• Shipped in a rigid protective tube.