Applevariety
Byfleet Seedling
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1915; tart, aromatic, juicy and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · West Hall, Byfleet, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 80.50 mmHeight 65.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Byfleet Seedling began
Recorded origin
West Hall, Byfleet, Surrey
Byfleet Seedling’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Byfleet Seedling
West Hall, Byfleet, Surrey
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 80.50 mm
- height
- 65.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Bramley's Seedling x Lane's Prince Albert
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.