Applevariety
Burn's Seedling
Also known as Burn's Saemling +4
Burn's Saemling · Burn's Samling · Burns Seedling · Burns's Seedling · Burr's Seedling
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · near Marlborough, Wiltshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tenderfirm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and streaked redSkin texture slightly rough, slightly greasy, thinBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged green near core
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58-67 mmFruit height 55-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye and on bodyRusset pattern patches and netting of russet
Origin & family
Where Burn's Seedling began
Recorded origin
near Marlborough, Wiltshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Burn's Saemling, Burn's Samling, Burns Seedling, Burns's Seedling, Burr's Seedling
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 58-67 mm
- over colour
- flushed and streaked red
- russet type
- patches and netting of russet
- flesh colour
- white, tinged green near core
- fruit height
- 55-61 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough, slightly greasy, thin
- flesh texture
- tender, firm, coarse
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.