Ashmead's Kernel
syn. Aschmead's Saemling, Aschmead's Seedling, Ashmead's Saemling, Ashmead's Samling, Ashmead's Seedling, Doctor Ashmead's Kernel, Dr Ashmead's Kernel, Samling von Ashmead, Semis d'Aschmead, Semis d'Ashmead, Seyanets Ashmida
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1700 by Dr Ashmead, Gloucester. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1981. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a rich aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 65.00 mm
- Height
- 70.00 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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