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Blenheim Orange is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in about 1740.

A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Kempster’s Pippin began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America.

This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour excellent for cooking.

The vigorous tree is slow to come into crop but then produces heavily.

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Blenheim may refer to:
  • Battle of Blenheim, a battle fought between a Grand Alliance and a French-Bavarian army during the War of the Spanish Succession
  • Blenheim Palace

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Over 7,500 cultivars of the apple are known. The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where documented), and whether each produces cooking apples or dessert apples.
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Ambrosia is a cultivar of apple originating in British Columbia in the early 1980s. It is medium to large in size and has mostly red coloration, with yellow patches. It has cream-colored meat with a sweet, crisp, aromatic flavor and low acidity.
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Antonovka is a late-fall/winter apple cultivar that was widely grown in the Soviet Union and, previously, in the Russian Empire. Ivan Bunin's early short story, Antonovka Apples (1900), is a sort of ode to this apple cultivar.
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Baldwin apple is a bright red winter apple, very good in quality, and easily shipped. It was for many years the most popular apple in New England, New York, and for export from America.
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The Ben Davis apple is an apple variety originating in the American South. During the 19th century it was a popular commercial apple due to the ruggedness and keeping qualities of the fruit, but as packing and transportation techniques improved the variety fell out of favor,
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Braeburn is a cultivar of apple that is firm to the touch with a red vertical streaky appearance. Its colour intensity varies with different varieties.

Braeburn apples have a unique combination of sweet and tart flavour.
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The Bramley apple (Malus domestica 'Bramley's Seedling') is a cultivar of apple which is often eaten cooked. Raw, most people find its tarty flavour too strong, and it is either loved or hated. Once cooked, however, it has a lighter flavour.
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The Cameo is a cultivar of apple, discovered, by the Caudle family, by chance in a Dryden, Washington orchard in 1987. Its parentage is uncertain; it may be a cross between a Red Delicious and a Golden Delicious, since it was found near orchards of those fruits; it also
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Cortland (also spelled Courtland) is a cultivar of apple.

After the many attributes of McIntosh were discovered, plant breeders began crossing it with other varieties to enhance its traits. One of the earliest was the Cortland, combined with the Ben Davis variety.
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The Cornish Gilliflower is a cultivar of apple.

It is so named as it was found in Truro, Cornwall the word 'gilliflower' being a corruption of a French word meaning clove-like, believed to be a reference to its odour.

It was introduced commercially in 1813.
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Cox's Orange Pippin is a cultivar of apple. The first plant was raised from a pip (of unknown origin, possibly from a Ribston Pippin) around 1825, at Colnbrook in England by a retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox.
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Cripps Pink is a cultivar variety of apple widely available in the Northern Hemisphere. It was originally produced by Apple and Pear Australia Limited by crossing the Australian apple Lady Williams
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The Egremont Russet is a cultivar of dessert apple, of the russet type. It has a rich, nutty flavour and crisp, firm and fairly juicy flesh.

It was first recorded in 1872, and is believed to have been raised by Lord Egremont at Petworth in Sussex, UK.
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The Elstar apple is an apple cultivar that was first developed in the Netherlands in the 1950s by crossing Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie apples. It quickly became popular, especially in Europe and was first introduced to America in 1972 [1] .
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The Flower of Kent is a green variety of cooking apple. According to the story, this is the apple Isaac Newton saw falling to ground from its tree, inspiring his laws of universal gravitation.
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The Fuji apple is an apple cultivar developed by growers at the Tohoku Research Station in Morioka, Japan in the late 1930s and brought to market in 1962. It is a cross between two American apple varieties, the Red Delicious and old Virginia Ralls Genet (sometimes cited
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Gala is a cultivar of apple, with a mild and sweet flavor.

Appearance and flavour

Gala apples are small and are usually red with a portion being greenish or yellow-green, vertically striped.
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Ginger Gold is a yellow apple variety which entered commerce in the 1980s, though the original seedling dates from the late 1960s.

Characteristics

Ginger Gold is one of the earliest commercial apple varieties to ripen, bearing in August on the east coast or even July in
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Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple with a yellow color. It is not related to the Red Delicious apple.

Appearance and flavor

Golden Delicious is a large, yellow skinned cultivar and very sweet to the taste.
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Granny Smith, or green apple, is an apple cultivar. It originated in Australia in 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Maria Smith, where the name "Granny Smith" comes from.
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Gravenstein (Danish: Gråsten-Æble) is a variety of apple native to Gråsten in South Jutland, Denmark. The variety was discovered in 1669 as a chance seedling, although there is some evidence that the variety originated in Italy and traveled north.
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The Haralson is a cultivar of apple that is medium-sized and has a round-conic shape. It has a red color and large, moderately conspicuous dots. Haralson apples are crisp and juicy, having a tart flavor. They are good for eating, cooking, and are an excellent choice for pies.
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Honeycrisp (Malus domestica 'Honeycrisp') is an apple cultivar developed at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station's Horticultural Research Center at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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