Applevariety
Oxford Sunrise
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, streaked redBackground colour yellow green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55-64 mmFruit height 41-50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, not or slightly on body
Origin & family
Where Oxford Sunrise began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
Oxford Sunrise’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Oxford Sunrise
Eynsham, Oxford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, not or slightly on body
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Lane's Prince Albert
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 55-64 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, streaked red
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 41-50 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.