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Flamenco (apple)

Apple cultivar

'Flamenco' apple
Hybrid parentage	(Cox's Orange PippinxCourt Pendu Plat) × Wijcik McIntosh
Cultivar	'Flamenco' or 'Ballerina Obelisk'
Origin	England, 1950 - 1999

Flamenco, also known as Ballerina Obelisk, is a cultivar of domesticated apple that bears apples good for eating fresh, and is grown for its unusual ornamental properties. The tree grows in a straight up columnar style, with many small fruit-bearing branches.^[1] 'Flamenco' is one of a series of apple tree cultivars that share a registered trademark under the name Ballerina.

Flamenco was developed in Kent, England, between the years 1950 and 1999 by the East Malling Research Station, when they crossed a hybrid of the English Cox's Orange Pippin and the French Court Pendu Plat with the "Wijcik McIntosh", which itself is a columnar mutation of the Canadian McIntosh apple.^[2][3][4]

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Further reading[edit]

• Coombs, D.; Blackburne-Maze, P.; Cracknell, M.; Bentley, R. (2001). "Tree Fruits Outdoors and Under Glass". In Coombs, D. (ed.). The Complete Book of Pruning. pp. 167–197. ISBN 9781841881430.

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