Search Options
Copyright Information
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Reid's Seedling
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised around 1880-1890 by Mr Reid of Drumart Jones, Richill, Co. Armagh, Ireland. Fruits have somewhat coarse, creamy white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1949 - 211
- Accession name
- Reid's Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 54.51 mm 1
- Width
- 66.41 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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