Applevariety
Tydeman's Late Orange
Also known as Tydeman's Late Cox
Tydeman's Late Cox
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape, raised in 1930 and introduced in 1949; aromatic, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · East Malling Research Station, Kent
Released 1949
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 58.50 mmHeight 55.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Tydeman's Late Orange began
Recorded origin
East Malling Research Station, Kent
- Released
- 1949
Tydeman's Late Orange’s family
5 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Tydeman's Late Orange
East Malling Research Station, Kent
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
- Conical
- width
- 58.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 55.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Tydeman's Late Cox
- parentage
- Laxton's Superb x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.