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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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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