Hambling's Seedling
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Major W.J. Hambling, Dunstable, Bedfordshire and introduced in 1894 by Bunyard, Maidstone. It received a First Class Certificate from the RHS in 1893. Fruits have a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 83.00 mm
- Height
- 70.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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