Applevariety
Orenco
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Oregon
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped pinkish orangeBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, veined green
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 74-84 mmFruit height 58-72 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apex
Origin & family
Where Orenco began
Recorded origin
Oregon
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 74-84 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped pinkish orange
- flesh colour
- creamy white, veined green
- fruit height
- 58-72 mm
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.