Applevariety
Hodge's Seedling
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · West of England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and streaked redBackground colour golden yellow
- Shape
- tall, conic, convex to concave
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Hodge's Seedling began
Recorded origin
West of England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex to concave
- over colour
- flushed and streaked red
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.