Oriole
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1914 in Excelsior, Minnesota, USA by the University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm. Introduced in 1949. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and slightly subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 60-73 mm
- Over colour
- pink flush and streaks
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 57-69 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 77.38 mm
- Height
- 75.53 mm
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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