Wardington Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Banbury, Oxfordshire by D. Burchnell, gardener to Lady Wardington. First fruited in about 1938. Fruits have crisp, tender, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 56.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 46.00 mm
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- n/a
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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