Applevariety
Cottenham Seedling
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart, juicy and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- largeWidth 74.50 mmHeight 67.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Cottenham Seedling began
Recorded origin
Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England
United Kingdom
Cottenham Seedling’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Cottenham Seedling
Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Dumelow's Seedling → Cottenham SeedlingParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 74.50 mm
- height
- 67.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Dumelow's Seedling x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.