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Hambledon Deux Ans
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Hambledon, Hampshire, England in about 1750. Fruits have very firm, coarse-textured, rather dry flesh, which is a little sweet and slightly acid with a faint aromatic flavour. Rather prone to bitter pit.
- Synonyms:
- Ashridge Pine Apple, Black Blenheim, Blue Stone Pippin, Bluestone Pippin, Dauer Apfel von Hambledon, Dauerapfel von Hambledon, Deux Ans, Deux Ans de Hambledon, Deux-Ans, Dewsum, Dewvsam, Doosens, Dusand, Grahams, Green Blenheim, Green Kitchen, Hambledon, Hambledon Deaux Ans, Hambledon Deux-Ans, Hambledon's Deux Ans, Hamilton's, Jewsams, Jewsums, Mitchell's Seedling, Mr. Prothero, Pine Apple Pippin, Pudding, Pudding Apple, Smiling Beauty, Somersetshire Deux Ans, Stone Blenheim, Stone's Blenheim, Winter Hillier, Yorkshire Queen
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
- Father to:
- Caudal Market
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 64.00mm 2
- Width
- 76.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1975 - 019
- Accession name
- Hambledon Deux Ans
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering 17th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- early october 1



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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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