Applevariety
Ruby (Seabrook)
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Boreham, Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Ruby (Seabrook) began
Recorded origin
Boreham, Essex
Ruby (Seabrook)’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ruby (Seabrook)
Boreham, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Worcester Pearmain → Ruby (Seabrook)Parent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Rival
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.