Applevariety
Reid's Seedling
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in late September.
Origin · Drumart Jones, Richill, Co. Armagh, Ireland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- somewhat coarse
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange with carmine stripesBackground colour dull greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Reid's Seedling began
Recorded origin
Drumart Jones, Richill, Co. Armagh, Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- tip bearer
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- very slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- flushed orange with carmine stripes
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- flesh texture
- somewhat coarse
- ground colour
- dull greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.