Eynsham Challenger
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1935 by F.W. Wastie, Eynsham, Oxford. Fruits have rather coarse flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 86-93 mm
- Over colour
- faint orange flush and red streaks
- Russet type
- dotted, traces of thin russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 72-82 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, slightly greasy, thin, tender
- Flesh texture
- rather coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- strong-very strong
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 99.78 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 90.58 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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