Red Blenheim (Wastie)
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Triploid. A more highly coloured clone of Blenheim Orange. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with a rich, characteristic aromatic flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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