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Orenco
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Orenco, Oregon, USA, by The Oregon Nursery Company, but said by some to be a chance seedling found in Oregon City. It was catalogued in 1903 but said by some to have originated in about 1840. Fruits have soft flesh with a sweet subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1952 - 116
- Accession name
- Orenco
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 68.49 mm 1
- Width
- 83.03 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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