Applevariety
Ellison's Orange
Also known as Ellison
Ellison
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1904; sweet, aromatic, juicy and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Bracebridge; Hartsholme Hall, Lincolnshire
Released 1911
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- tender
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic, aniseed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour stripes and slightly flushed crimsonBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed
Origin & family
Where Ellison's Orange began
Recorded origin
Bracebridge; Hartsholme Hall, Lincolnshire
- Released
- 1911
Ellison's Orange’s family
8 varieties · 9 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ellison's Orange
Bracebridge; Hartsholme Hall, Lincolnshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Red Ellison's Orange
- flavour
- sweet, aromatic, aniseed
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Ellison
- father to
- Lynn's Pippin Saint Ailred
- mother to
- Merton Beauty
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Calville blanc (Mayenne)
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- over colour
- stripes and slightly flushed crimson
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.