Flamenco (apple) explained

'Flamenco' apple
Hybrid:	(Cox's Orange Pippin x Court Pendu Plat) × Wijcik McIntosh
Cultivar:	'Flamenco' or 'Ballerina Obelisk'
Origin:	, 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]}

Further reading

• Book: Tree Fruits Outdoors and Under Glass . 167–197 . The Complete Book of Pruning . Coombs . D. . Coombs . D. . Blackburne-Maze . P. . Cracknell . M. . Bentley . R. . 9781841881430 . 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Colannade Flamenco Apple . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141231211734/https://www.sproutswyo.com/store/p287/Colannade_Flamenco_Apple.html . 31 December 2014 . Sprouts Greenhouse.
2. Bai . T. . Zhu . Y. . Fernández-Fernández . F. . etal . Fine genetic mapping of the Co locus controlling columnar growth habit in apple . Molecular Genetics and Genomics . 2012 . 287 . 437–450 . 10.1007/s00438-012-0689-5 . 22526430.
3. Sarwar . M. . Skirvin . R.M. . etal . Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture . 1998 . 54 . 71-76 . Selecting dwarf apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) trees in vitro: multiple cytokinin tolerance expressed among three strains of ‘McIntosh’ that differ in their growth habit under field conditions . 10.1023/A:1006157611836.
4. http://www.orangepippin.com/apples/flamenco Flamenco