Red Ellison's Orange
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured sport of Ellison's Orange. Discovered in 1948 in H.C. Selby's orchard, Walpole St. Peter, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a rich and strong aniseed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site