Foster's Seedling
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the UK. It was introduced in about 1893 by G. Bunyard, Maidstone, Kent. Fruits have tender flesh with an acid and vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 17th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 60.50 mm
- Height
- 48.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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