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Chelmsford Wonder
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Culinary
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 61.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 75.0 mm
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
A large yellow-skinned cooking apple from Essex with a diffuse orange-pink flush, developed around 1870. Prized for its long keeping ability and creamy white, firm flesh, it was awarded an RHS FCC in 1891 and remains cultivated in Essex orchards today.
Flavor & Texture
subacidfirmfine_grainedjuicy
Best Uses
cooking
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- chance seedling
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 1070
- Wikidata
- Q5089974
- MUNQ ID
- 290