Applevariety
Bramley's Seedling
Also known as Bramley +2
Bramley · Bramleys Samling · Triomphe de Kiel
A classic cooking apple that turns sharp and soft when cooked.
Origin · Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England
Released 1865
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour red flush and stripesBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, irregular
- Size
- largeFruit width 89 mmFruit height 65 mm
Origin & family
Where Bramley's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1865
Bramley's Seedling’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Bramley's Seedling
Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Crimson Bramley
- flavour
- acid
- synonyms
- Bramley, Bramleys Samling, Triomphe de Kiel
- mother to
- Woolbrook Russet Byfleet Seedling Florence Bennett
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, irregular
- fruit width
- 89 mm
- over colour
- red flush and stripes
- flesh colour
- yellowish
- fruit height
- 65 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.