Applevariety
Fletcher's Prolific
Also known as Fletcher's Seedling
Fletcher's Seedling
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape, first recorded in 1888; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.50 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 60.50 mm
- height
- 48.00 mm
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Fletcher's Seedling
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.