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
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