Applevariety
Proctor's Seedling
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Lancashire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely covered with dark red flush and streaksBackground colour dull green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Where Proctor's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Lancashire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- almost entirely covered with dark red flush and streaks
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- dull green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.