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Oxford Beauty
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W. Wastie. Recorded in 1944. Fruits have fine, crisp, tender flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Gascoyne's Scarlet x Scarlet Nonpareil
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 63.00mm 2
- Width
- 75.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
Accession No.
1954 - 073
- Accession name
- Oxford Beauty
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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