Applevariety
Wardington Seedling
A dessert apple with green-yellow skin, broad round-conical,-crunch-crisp in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Banbury, Oxfordshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 56.00 mmHeight 46.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Wardington Seedling began
Recorded origin
Banbury, Oxfordshire
Wardington Seedling’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Wardington Seedling
Banbury, Oxfordshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Wardington SeedlingParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 56.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 46.00 mm
- ribbing
- very weak
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- n/a
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.