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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Aldenham Blenheim

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Triploid. Believed to be a coloured sport of Blenheim Orange. It was discovered before 1929 at Aldenham House, Hertfordshire by Edwin Beckett. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with a rich, characteristic aromatic flavour. Cooks well.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Aldenham Blenheim United Kingdom, before 1929
- Sport of Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
  - Parent Reinette de Hollande

Where Aldenham Blenheim came from. The lines lead to its parents: Blenheim Orange (United Kingdom).

Sources

Aldenham Blenheim (accession 1929 - 032), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september); the other names.