Blenheim Orange
syn. Beauty of Dumbleton, Belle d'Angers, Bleinheim Pepping, Bleinheim Pippin, Blenhaimska zlatna reneta, Blenheim, Blenheim Orange Pippin, Blenheim Pepping, Blenheim Pippin, Blenheimer Goldrenette, Blenheimer Reinette, Blenheimi renet, Blenheims Guldrenett, Blenheimska, Blenheimská reneta, Gold reinePippin, Gold-Reinette von Blenheim, Konigin Victoria, Lucius Apfel, Northampton, Northwich Pippin, Northwick Pippin, Northwitch Blenheim, Orange Pippin, Perle d'Angleterre, Pomme de Blenheim, Postrophe, Prince de Galles, Prince of Wales, Reinette d'Or de Blenheim, Reinette de Blenheim, Reinette de Savalle, Reinette doree de Blenheim, Reinette Gold von Blenheim, Renet auriu de Blenheim, Renet Blengeimskii, Renet Blengheimskii, Renet de Blenheim, Renet Zolotoi Blengeimskii, Renet zolotoi blengheimskii, Reneta Blenheimska, Renetta dorata di Blenheim, Ward's Pippin, Woodstock, Woodstock Pippin, Woodstock's Pippin, Zlota reneta Blenheimska
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
Triploid. Discovered by Mr Kempster at Woodstock near Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England in about 1740. Distributed in about 1818. It received the Banksian medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1822. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured and rather dry flesh with a rich, characteristic aromatic flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 1973-133 · Blenheim Orange (LA 62A)
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet, characteristic flavour
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 90 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and streaked red
- Russet type
- present
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 65 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Accession 2000-022 · Blenheim Orange (Wisley)
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Source · National Fruit Collection
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