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Oriole
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1914 in Excelsior, Minnesota, USA by the University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm. Introduced in 1949. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and slightly subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Father to:
- State Fair
Accession No.
1951 - 067
- Accession name
- Oriole
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 75.53 mm 1
- Width
- 77.38 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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