Braintree Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1930 by Mrs Humphreys, Braintree, Essex. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 63.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 48.00 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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