Applevariety
Opal (Seabrook)
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Chelmsford, Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed bright crimson, striped carmineBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- cream, tinged orange
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern some russet dots
Origin & family
Where Opal (Seabrook) began
Recorded origin
Chelmsford, Essex
Opal (Seabrook)’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Opal (Seabrook)
Chelmsford, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Worcester Pearmain → Opal (Seabrook)Parent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- parentage
- Rival x Worcester Pearmain
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- flushed bright crimson, striped carmine
- russet type
- some russet dots
- flesh colour
- cream, tinged orange
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.