Orleans
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1912 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1923. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Narrow conical
- Width
- 65.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 58.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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