Hodge's Seedling
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the West of England. It was known in 1876. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex to concave
- Over colour
- flushed and streaked red
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 73.56 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 64.34 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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