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Oranje de Sonnaville
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by P. Sonnaville at the Fruit Research Station, Wilhelminadorp, The Netherlands. Introduced in 1971. Fruits have rather coarse-textured, sweet flesh with a rich, aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Jonathan
Accession No.
1974 - 289
- Accession name
- Oranje de Sonnaville
- Flowering time ›››
- 13th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 68.10 mm 1
- Width
- 84.01 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019