Applevariety
Murfitt's Seedling
Also known as Marfit's Seedling +2
Marfit's Seedling · Marfitt's Seedling · Murfitt's Apple
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in about 1883; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Cambridgeshire, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Murfitt's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Cambridgeshire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 76.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 63.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- synonyms
- Marfit's Seedling, Marfitt's Seedling, Murfitt's Apple
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.