Applevariety
Robert Blatchford
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape, introduced in 1914. Picked in early October.
Origin · Hunstanton, Norfolk
Released 1914
Taste & texture
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour green and yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed
Origin & family
Where Robert Blatchford began
Recorded origin
Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Released
- 1914
Robert Blatchford’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Robert Blatchford
Hunstanton, Norfolk
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- ribbing
- ribbed
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x Reverend W. Wilks
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- ground colour
- green and yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.