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Potts' Seedling
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Samuel Potts at Ashton-under-Lyme, Cheshire in about 1849. Fruits have greenish white, rather soft, fine-textured flesh with a very acid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Dean's Codlin, Deans' Codlin, Holland Pippin, Nott's Seedling, Notts Seedling, Notts' Seedling, Pott's Seedling, Potts Seedling, Potts's Seedling, Pratt's Pudding
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 76.00mm 2
- Width
- 82.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- very low 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1957 - 223
- Accession name
- Potts' Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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