Blenheim Orange

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dual Purpose

Introduced

1818

Origin

Woodstock, near Blenheim, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 15.5 °Bx

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Blenheim Orange is a medium to fairly large, flattened apple with yellow skin flushed and striped with dull red and russet. Featuring crisp, yellow flesh with a characteristic sub-acid flavour, it stores from November to January and is one of the finest all-round apples, cooking excellently and of superior quality and texture for dessert. Raised at Woodstock near Blenheim by Mr. Kempster around 1818, it became widely cultivated in the London neighbourhood and beyond.

Flavor & Texture

nuttyaromaticjuicy

Best Uses

cookingfresh_eating

3 historical watercolors from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.

Lineage

Parents

Golden Reinette

Offspring

Cox Orange Pippin Annie Elizabeth Howgate Wonder Edward VII Newton Wonder Early Woodstock Eynsham Challenger Eynsham Dumpling George Carpenter Bailey's Record Joe Eaton Ballinora Pippin Lent Rise Beauty of Hants Middle Green Moody's Seedling Moore's Seedling Oxford Conquest

Origin & History

Status: commercial
Origin type: open pollinated seedling
Original breeder: Mr. Kempster

crispsub-acidcharacteristic flavour

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 589593
UK National Fruit Collection: 625
Wikidata: Q1331071