Applevariety
Hambling's Seedling
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, conical in shape, introduced in 1894; mildly tart. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Released 1894
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage very low
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- largeWidth 83.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Hambling's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Dunstable, Bedfordshire
- Released
- 1894
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 83.00 mm
- height
- 70.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- very low
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.