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Oxford Hoard
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W. Wastie. Exhibited in 1943. Fruits have coarse, firm, tough flesh with a sweet and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sturmer Pippin x Golden Russet
- Shape
- Conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1945 - 050
- Accession name
- Oxford Hoard
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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