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Apple varieties, United States

Oriole

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

Raised in 1914 in Excelsior, Minnesota, USA by the University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm. Introduced in 1949. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and slightly subacid flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

State Fair × Mantet; United States, 1949

Where Oriole came from.

Sources

Oriole (accession 1951 - 067), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid august).