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Red Ellison's Orange
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured sport of Ellison's Orange. Discovered in 1948 in H.C. Selby's orchard, Walpole St. Peter, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a rich and strong aniseed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Ellison's Orange
Accession No.
1979 - 179
- Accession name
- Red Ellison's Orange (LA 72A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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