Applevariety
Foster's Seedling
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in about 1893; tart and wine-like. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · UK
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped/mottled
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.50 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Foster's Seedling began
Recorded origin
UK
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 60.50 mm
- height
- 48.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- absent
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.