Proctor's Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Lancashire, England. Known in 1934. Fruits have firm, white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- almost entirely covered with dark red flush and streaks
- Russet type
- russet at base
- Flesh colour
- white
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- dull green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 58.71 mm
- Height
- 44.66 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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