Applevariety
Oriole
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape, raised in 1914 and introduced in 1949; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Excelsior, Minnesota, USA
Released 1949
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour pink flush and streaksBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 60-73 mmFruit height 57-69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Oriole began
Recorded origin
Excelsior, Minnesota, USA
United States
- Released
- 1949
Oriole’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Oriole
Excelsior, Minnesota, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Oriole → State FairParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- father to
- State Fair
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 60-73 mm
- over colour
- pink flush and streaks
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 57-69 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.