Hambledon Deux Ans
syn. Ashridge Pine Apple, Black Blenheim, Blue Stone Pippin, Bluestone Pippin, Dauer Apfel von Hambledon, Dauerapfel von Hambledon, Deux Ans, Deux Ans de Hambledon, Deux-Ans, Dewsum, Dewvsam, Doosens, Dusand, Grahams, Green Blenheim, Green Kitchen, Hambledon, Hambledon Deaux Ans, Hambledon Deux-Ans, Hambledon's Deux Ans, Hamilton's, Jewsams, Jewsums, Mitchell's Seedling, Mr. Prothero, Pine Apple Pippin, Pudding, Pudding Apple, Smiling Beauty, Somersetshire Deux Ans, Stone Blenheim, Stone's Blenheim, Winter Hillier, Yorkshire Queen
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
Originated in Hambledon, Hampshire, England in about 1750. Fruits have very firm, coarse-textured, rather dry flesh, which is a little sweet and slightly acid with a faint aromatic flavour. Rather prone to bitter pit.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 1929-028 · Hambledon Deux Ans
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Accession 1975-019 · Hambledon Deux Ans
- Picking time
- early october
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 76.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 64.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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