Applevariety
Oxford Yeoman
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1922; tart. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Oxford Yeoman began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
Oxford Yeoman’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Oxford Yeoman
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
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x Lane's Prince Albert
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.