Hambledon Deux Ans
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Hambledon, Hampshire, England in about 1750. Fruits have very firm, coarse-textured, rather dry flesh, which is a little sweet and slightly acid with a faint aromatic flavour. Rather prone to bitter pit.
Synonyms:
Ashridge Pine Apple, Black Blenheim, Blue Stone Pippin, Bluestone Pippin, Dauer Apfel von Hambledon, Dauerapfel von Hambledon, Deux Ans, Deux Ans de Hambledon, Deux-Ans, Dewsum, Dewvsam, Doosens, Dusand, Grahams, Green Blenheim, Green Kitchen, Hambledon, Hambledon Deaux Ans, Hambledon Deux-Ans, Hambledon's Deux Ans, Hamilton's, Jewsams, Jewsums, Mitchell's Seedling, Mr. Prothero, Pine Apple Pippin, Pudding, Pudding Apple, Smiling Beauty, Somersetshire Deux Ans, Stone Blenheim, Stone's Blenheim, Winter Hillier, Yorkshire Queen
Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
Father to:
Caudal Market
Size
large 2
Type
Culinary / Dessert 2
Shape
Truncate conical 2
Height
64.00 mm 2
Width
76.00 mm 2
Ribbing
weak-medium 2
Ground Colour
Green yellow 2
Over Colour
Red 2
Over Colour (Pattern)
striped 2
Russet
very low 2
Firmness
firm 2
Crunch
crisp 2
Flesh Colour
Greenish 2
Accession name
Hambledon Deux Ans
Flowering time
4th May 10% flowering
9th May Full (80%) flowering
17th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
early october 1
Accession name
Hambledon Deux Ans
Flowering time
5th May 10% flowering
10th May Full (80%) flowering
18th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Early October 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register