Applevariety
Mrs. Lakeman's Seedling
A cooking and dessert apple with green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in about 1900; sweet, tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Stocksfield, Northumberland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 90.00 mmHeight 75.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Mrs. Lakeman's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Stocksfield, Northumberland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 90.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 75.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.