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Ruby (Seabrook)
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by W. Seabrook & Sons Ltd., Boreham, Essex. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1936. Fruits have rather soft, creamy white with pink tinge flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Worcester Pearmain x Rival
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- very weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1936 - 026
- Accession name
- Ruby (Seabrook)
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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