Mrs. Lakeman's Seedling
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1900 by Mrs Lakeman of Stocksfield, Northumberland. Introduced by William Fell & Co., of Hexham. Fruits have crisp, firm, rather coarse flesh with an acid and slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 90.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 75.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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