Applevariety
Oxford Beauty
A dessert apple with whitish-yellow skin, flat-round,-crunch-crisp in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- largeWidth 75.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Oxford Beauty began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
Oxford Beauty’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Oxford Beauty
Eynsham, Oxford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Drag to explore. Select a variety for its recorded relationships.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 75.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 63.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- Gascoyne's Scarlet x Scarlet Nonpareil
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.