Ashmead's Kernel
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1700 by Dr Ashmead, Gloucester. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1981. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a rich aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Aschmead's Saemling, Aschmead's Seedling, Ashmead's Saemling, Ashmead's Samling, Ashmead's Seedling, Doctor Ashmead's Kernel, Dr Ashmead's Kernel, Samling von Ashmead, Semis d'Aschmead, Semis d'Ashmead, Seyanets Ashmida
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Material held in the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust collection (link to website)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Croft Pendarren)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 70.00mm 2
- Width
- 65.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- high-very high 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1970 - 106
- Accession name
- Ashmead's Kernel (EMLA H6501/6B)
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering 22nd May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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