Applevariety
Schweizer Orange
Also known as Schweizer Orangenapfel +1
Schweizer Orangenapfel · Swiss Orange
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Wadenswil, Switzerland
Released 1955
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped/mottled
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Schweizer Orange began
Recorded origin
Wadenswil
Switzerland
- Released
- 1955
Schweizer Orange’s family
7 varieties · 6 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Schweizer Orange
Wadenswil, Switzerland
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
- Flat globose
- width
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Schweizer Orangenapfel, Swiss Orange
- father to
- Goro
- parentage
- Ontario x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.