Cooper's Seedling
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated from Kent. Known to have been in existence in 1946. Fruits have rather soft flesh.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 27th April (10%) · 30th April (full) · 9th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- occasional red flush
- Russet type
- russet in cavity
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 90.95 mm
- Height
- 82.80 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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