Carswell's Orange

A handsom aromatic mid season dessert apple.

Origin: Surrey UK, 1938

Pollination: Carswell's Orange is a self-sterile triploid and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.Find pollination partners >

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History and description of Carswell's Orange

Raised from a Cox's Orange Pippin Seedling by J W Carswell at Ashtead, Surrey, UK in 1938. Large, conical fruit. Handsome with scarlet flush and stripes over yellow skin. Yellow flesh. Good, well balanced, sweet-sharp, aromatic flavour.

Characteristics of Carswell's Orange apple trees

Use	Dessert
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Aromatic
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Mid/Late Sep
Season of use	Sep-Oct
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping
Pollination date	14
Pollination group	D
Self-fertility	Self-sterile triploid
Pollinators	Pollination partners
Parentage	Cox's Orange Pippin Cox's Orange Pippin