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Oxford Yeoman
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1922 at Eynsham, Oxford, by F.W. Wastie. Exhibited in 1942. Fruits have coarse, white flesh with an acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Blenheim Orange x Lane's Prince Albert
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 57.00mm 2
- Width
- 76.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1944 - 036
- Accession name
- Oxford Yeoman
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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