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Rosy Blenheim
type: Dessert
synonyms: Rosy Blenheim is sometimes used as a synonym for Blenheim Orange but it is not the same apple.
identification: Large and round. The base colour is yellow over which is a bright red blush and a pattern of broken red stripes on the sun-exposed face. The calyx is small and open, set in a wide, recessed basin. The stem is short and moderately stout, set in a deep and narrow, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and soft. Sweet and perfumed.
origins: An open-pollinated seedling of Cox’s Orange Pippin raised by F.W. Thorrington at Hornchurch, Essex (U.K.) in the early 1900s. The pollen parent is unknown. Introduced at the National Fruit Trials in 1925.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Keeps three months.
harvest: Early in the fifth period.
notes: Thorrington's other apples from this breeding are Rosy Blenheim , Sunburn , Francis , Ruby (Thorrington) and Daniel Fele Renet .
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
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