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F5 Blenheim Orange Apple Tree Details

Grid Ref F5
Tree Type Apple
Variety Blenheim Orange
Rootstock M25
Date Planted 23 January 2011
(14 yrs 7 mths 4 days ago)
Tree Description A large orange-yellow fruit, crisp, somewhat acid but distinctly flavoured. An old and much cultivated sort, rather long in cropping. A broad spreading tree. A midwinter dessert apple, ripening in November, keeping till January and February. Picked in October and stored until ripe.
Comments Suggested by RP & CS. Fruiting well elsewhere in St. James (RP & CS). Traditionally an apple for Christmas.

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