Mitchelson's Seedling
syn. Mitchellson's Seedling, Mitchelson, Mitchelson's Seedling of Hogg
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey by Mitchelson. First described in 1851. Fruits have firm, crisp, yellowish white flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64-78 mm
- Over colour
- occasional faint red flush or mottling
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 53-67 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine, firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- deep yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 87.46 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 71.63 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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