Pickering's Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Believed to have originated in Nottinghamshire, England. Brought to notice in 1869. Fruits have firm, fine, fairly tender, sweet flesh.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 57.00 mm
- Height
- 57.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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