Eynsham Challenger
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1935 by F.W. Wastie, Eynsham, Oxford. Fruits have rather coarse flesh with an acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Blenheim Orange x Lord Derby
Accession No.
1960 - 042
- Accession name
- Eynsham Challenger
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 21st May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Truncate conical 1
- Height
- 90.58 mm 1
- Width
- 99.78 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- strong-very strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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