Applevariety
Barchard's Seedling
A dessert apple, flat round in shape, yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in late-September. Introduced in 1856. Sweet, mildly tart and crisp.
Origin · Putney, London
Released 1856
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.50 mmHeight 55.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Barchard's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Putney, London
- Released
- 1856
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 64.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 55.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.