Applevariety
Ballarat Seedling
Also known as Ballarat +3
Ballarat · Stewart's · Stewart's Ballarat Seedling · Stewart's Seedling
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage medium-high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- largeWidth 77.00 mmHeight 67.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Ballarat Seedling began
Recorded origin
Ballarat, Victoria
Australia
Ballarat Seedling’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ballarat Seedling
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Dunn's Seedling → Ballarat SeedlingParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 77.00 mm
- height
- 67.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- synonyms
- Ballarat, Stewart's, Stewart's Ballarat Seedling, Stewart's Seedling
- parentage
- Dunn's Seedling x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- medium-high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.