Applevariety
Braintree Seedling
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1930; sweet, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Braintree, Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- low-mediumSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Where Braintree Seedling began
Recorded origin
Braintree, Essex
Braintree Seedling’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Braintree Seedling
Braintree, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Gladstone → Braintree SeedlingParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 48.00 mm
- russet
- low-medium
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Gladstone x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.