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Owen Thomas
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 51.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 63.0 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.
Owen Thomas is a dessert apple from Bedfordshire, England, introduced in 1920 as a cross between Cox Orange and Gladstone. It features greenish-white, soft, juicy flesh with sweet and aromatic flavors, with a green skin flushed with orange.
Flavor & Texture
sweetaromaticsoftjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 4460
- Wikidata
- Q41780058