Orenco
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Orenco, Oregon, USA, by The Oregon Nursery Company, but said by some to be a chance seedling found in Oregon City. It was catalogued in 1903 but said by some to have originated in about 1840. Fruits have soft flesh with a sweet subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 74-84 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped pinkish orange
- Flesh colour
- creamy white, veined green
- Fruit height
- 58-72 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 83.03 mm
- Height
- 68.49 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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