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Ballarat Seedling
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Found at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the garden of Mrs Stewart. Known in the early 1900s. Fruits have coarse, hard flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Ballarat, Stewart's, Stewart's Ballarat Seedling, Stewart's Seedling
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Dunn's Seedling x Unknown
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 67.00mm 2
- Width
- 77.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Pink 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- medium-high 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1930 - 057
- Accession name
- Ballarat Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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