Burn's Seedling
syn. Burn's Saemling, Burn's Samling, Burns Seedling, Burns's Seedling, Burr's Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Henry Burn, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. Recorded in 1831. Fruits have very sweet, coarse flesh.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- upright
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 58-67 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and streaked red
- Russet type
- patches and netting of russet
- Flesh colour
- white, tinged green near core
- Fruit height
- 55-61 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly rough, slightly greasy, thin
- Flesh texture
- tender, firm, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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