Applevariety

Blenheim Orange

Also known as Beauty of Dumbleton +46

Beauty of Dumbleton · Belle d'Angers · Bleinheim Pepping · Bleinheim Pippin · Blenhaimska zlatna reneta · Blenheim · Blenheim Orange Pippin · Blenheim Pepping · Blenheim Pippin · Blenheimer Goldrenette · Blenheimer Reinette · Blenheimi renet · Blenheims Guldrenett · Blenheimska · Blenheimská reneta · Gold reinePippin · Gold-Reinette von Blenheim · Konigin Victoria · Lucius Apfel · Northampton · Northwich Pippin · Northwick Pippin · Northwitch Blenheim · Orange Pippin · Perle d'Angleterre · Pomme de Blenheim · Postrophe · Prince de Galles · Prince of Wales · Reinette d'Or de Blenheim · Reinette de Blenheim · Reinette de Savalle · Reinette doree de Blenheim · Reinette Gold von Blenheim · Renet auriu de Blenheim · Renet Blengeimskii · Renet Blengheimskii · Renet de Blenheim · Renet Zolotoi Blengeimskii · Renet zolotoi blengheimskii · Reneta Blenheimska · Renetta dorata di Blenheim · Ward's Pippin · Woodstock · Woodstock Pippin · Woodstock's Pippin · Zlota reneta Blenheimska

A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in late September.

Origin · Woodstock near Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Acidity
subacid
Scent
aromatic
Bite
crisp
Flavour
subacid, sweet, characteristic flavour
Used for
Culinary / Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Surface colour flushed and streaked redRusset Russet presentBackground colour yellow
Flesh
yellow
Shape
flat, rectangular, convex
Size
largeFruit width 90 mmFruit height 65 mm
Appearance
Surface ridges slightly ribbed on body

Origin & family

Where Blenheim Orange began

Recorded origin

Woodstock near Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England

United Kingdom

Family tree

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Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
sports
Aldenham Blenheim Red Blenheim (Wastie)
flavour
subacid, sweet, characteristic flavour
ribbing
slightly ribbed on body
synonyms
Beauty of Dumbleton, Belle d'Angers, Bleinheim Pepping, Bleinheim Pippin, Blenhaimska zlatna reneta, Blenheim, Blenheim Orange Pippin, Blenheim Pepping, Blenheim Pippin, Blenheimer Goldrenette, Blenheimer Reinette, Blenheimi renet, Blenheims Guldrenett, Blenheimska, Blenheimská reneta, Gold reinePippin, Gold-Reinette von Blenheim, Konigin Victoria, Lucius Apfel, Northampton, Northwich Pippin, Northwick Pippin, Northwitch Blenheim, Orange Pippin, Perle d'Angleterre, Pomme de Blenheim, Postrophe, Prince de Galles, Prince of Wales, Reinette d'Or de Blenheim, Reinette de Blenheim, Reinette de Savalle, Reinette doree de Blenheim, Reinette Gold von Blenheim, Renet auriu de Blenheim, Renet Blengeimskii, Renet Blengheimskii, Renet de Blenheim, Renet Zolotoi Blengeimskii, Renet zolotoi blengheimskii, Reneta Blenheimska, Renetta dorata di Blenheim, Ward's Pippin, Woodstock, Woodstock Pippin, Woodstock's Pippin, Zlota reneta Blenheimska
father to
Celt Victory (Carpenter) Newton Wonder
mother to
Oxford Yeoman George Carpenter Oxford Conquest Beauty of Hants Howgate Wonder Annie Elizabeth Edward VII Eynsham Challenger Eynsham Dumpling Sergeant Peggy Robert Blatchford
fruit size
large
fruit shape
flat, rectangular, convex
fruit width
90 mm
over colour
flushed and streaked red
russet type
present
flesh colour
yellow
fruit height
65 mm
flesh texture
crisp
ground colour
yellow
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