Applevariety
Rokewood
Also known as Bullock's Seedling
Bullock's Seedling
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Australia
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 55.50 mmHeight 49.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Rokewood began
Recorded origin
Australia
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 55.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 49.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Bullock's Seedling
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.