Reid's Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised around 1880-1890 by Mr Reid of Drumart Jones, Richill, Co. Armagh, Ireland. Fruits have somewhat coarse, creamy white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- tip bearer
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- very slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed orange with carmine stripes
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Flesh texture
- somewhat coarse
- Ground colour
- dull greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 66.41 mm
- Height
- 54.51 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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