Applevariety
Lucombe's Seedling
Also known as Luckombe's Seedling +3
Luckombe's Seedling · Lucombe's Samling · Newquay Prizetaker · Uncle Barney
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart, firm and spicy. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Exeter
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- spicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 88.00 mmHeight 69.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Lucombe's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Exeter
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 88.00 mm
- height
- 69.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Luckombe's Seedling, Lucombe's Samling, Newquay Prizetaker, Uncle Barney
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.