Burn's Seedling
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Henry Burn, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. Recorded in 1831. Fruits have very sweet, coarse flesh.
- Synonyms:
- Burn's Saemling, Burn's Samling, Burns Seedling, Burns's Seedling, Burr's Seedling
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1945 - 128
- Accession name
- Burn's Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering 23rd May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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