Search Options
Copyright Information
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Robert Blatchford
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by F. Chilvers, nurseryman, Hunstanton, Norfolk. Introduced in 1914. Keeps its shape when cooked.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Blenheim Orange x Reverend W. Wilks
Accession No.
1961 - 047
- Accession name
- Robert Blatchford
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 81.45 mm 1
- Width
- 100.15 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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