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Red Blenheim (Wastie)
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Triploid. A more highly coloured clone of Blenheim Orange. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with a rich, characteristic aromatic flavour. Cooks well.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Blenheim Orange
Accession No.
1966 - 030
- Accession name
- Red Blenheim (Wastie)
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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