Applevariety
Eynsham Challenger
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1935; tart. Picked in early October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- rather coarse
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour faint orange flush and red streaksSkin texture smooth, slightly greasy, thin, tenderBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 86-93 mmFruit height 72-82 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apexRusset pattern dotted, traces of thin russet
Origin & family
Where Eynsham Challenger began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x Lord Derby
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 86-93 mm
- over colour
- faint orange flush and red streaks
- russet type
- dotted, traces of thin russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 72-82 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, slightly greasy, thin, tender
- flesh texture
- rather coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.