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Barnack Orange
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1904 at Belvoir Castle, England by W. H. Divers. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured flesh, with a little juice and a good aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Barnack Beauty x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 57.00mm 2
- Width
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1925 - 004
- Accession name
- Barnack Orange
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019