Blenheim Orange

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Blenheim Orange (Kempster's Pippin) is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Old Woodstock, a suburb of Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740. It is considered a dual-purpose apple, with fruits usable from late September as cooking apples, and from October to January as eating apples. [1] [2]

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A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Kempster's Pippin, which began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America.

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Live photo of Blenheim Orange apple.

This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour and is excellent for cooking. Blenheim Orange does not hold its shape, rather, it produces a fine puree as it cooks. [3]

Typical of triploid apple varieties, Blenheim Orange is a very vigorous tree, and on standard rootstock can grow in excess of 30 feet tall. It is slow to come into production, but will then produce heavily. Fruit needs to be thinned heavily to control its biennial habit. [3]

Chemical composition

Sugar 12 - 13.75%, acid 5.6 - 11 g/litre, pectine 0.43%, vitamin C 12mg/100g. [4] [5]

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References

  1. Royal Horticultural Society - Blenheim Orange, accessed 27/09/2024
  2. Thomas, Harry Higgott (1902). The Book of the Apple. J. Lane. pp. 67, 71.
  3. 1 2 Apple - Blenheim Orange
  4. Obst und Garten 10/2020
  5. Pomologia Republicii Populare Romine, 1964