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Oxford Beauty
type: Dessert
identification: Large and round tending to round-flattened with pronounced ribbing on the larger apples. The base colour is pale, greenish-yellow, washed dark red on the sun-exposed face and marked with pale striping on the partially exposed surface, especially around the stem cavity. The calyx is medium size and partly open, set in a medium deep and wide basin. The stem is short and medium thick, set in a deep, narrow and russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white with some red stains next to the skin. Fine-grained, crisp and tender. Juicy, sweet and lightly flavoured.
origins: Developed in 1924 by crossing Gascoyne’s Scarlet with Scarlet Nonpareil by apple breeder Frederick Wastie of Eynsham in Oxfordshire, England.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
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