Applevariety
Oxford Hoard
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet, aromatic and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Oxford Hoard began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
Oxford Hoard’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Oxford Hoard
Eynsham, Oxford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Sturmer Pippin x Golden Russet
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.