Reinette Simirenko

{{Short description|Apple cultivar}}

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The Reinette Simirenko is an antique apple variety. The fruit has tender, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavor.{{cite book |title=Fruit, berry, and nut inventory |last=Adelmann |first=Arllys |page=138 |year=2001 |publisher=Seed Savers Exchange |isbn=9781882424573 }} It was the most widely grown variety in the Soviet Union.{{cite journal |title=Apples |journal=California Farmer |date=1987 |volume=266 }}

Cosmonauts took Reinette Simirenko into space,{{cite news |title=3 Acres of History Center Seeks to Preserve Rare Varieties of Apples |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-26-me-1480-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=26 July 1987 |access-date=31 March 2012 }} lending popularity to the story that this variety originated in the garden of Ukrainian Leo Simirenko.{{cite journal |last=Theordorson |first=George A. |author2=K. Peter Etzkorn |author3=Wsevolod W. Isajiw |date=December 1979 |title=Alex Simirenko |journal=Footnotes |publisher=American Sociological Association |volume=7 |issue=9 |pages=5 |url=http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/1979/ASA.12.1979.pdf }}