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Aldenham Blenheim

syn. Aldenheim Blenheim

Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Triploid. Believed to be a coloured sport of Blenheim Orange. It was discovered before 1929 at Aldenham House, Hertfordshire by Edwin Beckett. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with a rich, characteristic aromatic flavour. Cooks well.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late September
Flowering
4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Type
Culinary / Dessert

Source · National Fruit Collection

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