Oxford Sunrise
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W. Wastie. Exhibited in 1942. Fruits have firm, creamy white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 5th May (full) · 12th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, not or slightly on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 55-64 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange, streaked red
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 41-50 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 68.99 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 53.38 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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