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Ashdown Seedling
Apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated with the Ashdown and General Land Company, Horsted Keynes, Sussex. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1966. Fruits are very similar to Discovery.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1966 - 079
- Accession name
- Ashdown Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- late august 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019