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Robert Blatchford
type: Cooking, Culinary
synonyms: Blatchford, Robert Blachford
identification: Large, can be very large. Rounded to round-flattened, often with pronounced angular sides. Base colour is pale yellow, sometimes blushed orange where exposed to the sun. The calyx is medium to large, partly open and set in a medium-deep, narrow basin which is surrounded by a knobbed crown. The stem is short and medium-thick, set in a medium-deep and funnel-shaped cavity which is sometimes lightly russetted.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured.
uses: Cooking. Slices hold their shape
origins: A cross of Blenheim Orange and @5486 raised by F. Chilvers, nurseryman in Hunstanton, Norfolk (U.K.). Introduced in 1914.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the early part of the fifth period.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 19
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
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