Applevariety
Hope Cottage Seedling
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1900; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Hope Cottage, Rochford, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage low
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 61.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Hope Cottage Seedling began
Recorded origin
Hope Cottage, Rochford, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
Hope Cottage Seedling’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Hope Cottage Seedling
Hope Cottage, Rochford, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
King of the Pippins → Hope Cottage SeedlingParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 61.00 mm
- height
- 50.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- King of the Pippins x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.