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Lamb's Seedling
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised 1866-1867 at Meynell Langley, Derby, by Joseph Lamb. Fruits have soft, coarse, slightly acid flesh.
- Synonyms:
- Langley Pippin
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Parentage:
- Northern Greening x Unknown
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 60.50mm 2
- Width
- 73.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1933 - 003
- Accession name
- Lamb's Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019