Ballarat Seedling
syn. Ballarat, Stewart's, Stewart's Ballarat Seedling, Stewart's Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the garden of Mrs Stewart. Known in the early 1900s. Fruits have coarse, hard flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 77.00 mm
- Height
- 67.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
Source · National Fruit Collection
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