Easter Orange
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Introduced by nurserymen, Hillier & Sons, Winchester. It was first recorded in 1897 in which year it also received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have crisp, firm flesh with a sweet and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 66.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 63.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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