Orleans
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, narrow conical in shape, raised in 1912 and introduced in 1923; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Released 1923
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Narrow conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.00 mmHeight 58.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Orleans began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
- Released
- 1923
Orleans’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Orleans
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Delicious → OrleansParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Narrow conical
- width
- 65.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 58.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Deacon Jones x Delicious
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Orleans apple, cross-sectioned. NFC's description of the apple is: "Raised in 1912 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1923.