Applevariety
Rosy Blenheim
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Hornchurch, Essex
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 73.50 mmHeight 58.00 mm
- Appearance
- low-mediumSurface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Rosy Blenheim began
Recorded origin
Hornchurch, Essex
Rosy Blenheim’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Rosy Blenheim
Hornchurch, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Rosy BlenheimParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 73.50 mm
- height
- 58.00 mm
- russet
- low-medium
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.