Applevariety
Oxford Conquest
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1927; tart. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 72.50 mmHeight 60.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Oxford Conquest began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 72.50 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x Court Pendu Plat
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.