Applevariety
Eynsham Dumpling
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, firm and rich. Picked in early October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- rather acid a little rich
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture thick, toughBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white, green veined
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 63-71 mmFruit height 54-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern extensive solid and patchy russet
Origin & family
Where Eynsham Dumpling began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
Eynsham Dumpling’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Eynsham Dumpling
Eynsham, Oxford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- rather acid a little rich
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x Sandringham
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 63-71 mm
- russet type
- extensive solid and patchy russet
- flesh colour
- creamy white, green veined
- fruit height
- 54-60 mm
- skin texture
- thick, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.