Chelmsford Wonder

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Culinary

Introduced

1870

Origin

Essex, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Fruit height: 61.0 mm
Fruit width: 75.0 mm

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

Dumelow's Seedling

Origin & History

Origin type: chance seedling

References

UK National Fruit Collection: 1070
Wikidata: Q5089974
MUNQ ID: 290