Queen Caroline
syn. Brown's Caroline, Brown's Codlin, Brown's Queen Caroline, Brown's Seedling, Spencer's Favourite, Spencer's Seedling
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1820 by nurseryman T. Brown at Measham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, England. Fruits have firm, loose-textured, white flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 76.00 mm
- Height
- 60.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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