Applevariety
Mitchelson's Seedling
Also known as Mitchellson's Seedling +2
Mitchellson's Seedling · Mitchelson · Mitchelson's Seedling of Hogg
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, round in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional faint red flush or mottlingBackground colour deep yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-78 mmFruit height 53-67 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Mitchelson's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Mitchellson's Seedling, Mitchelson, Mitchelson's Seedling of Hogg
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64-78 mm
- over colour
- occasional faint red flush or mottling
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 53-67 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, firm, crisp
- ground colour
- deep yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.