Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Bramley’s Seedling is the definitive English cooking apple. Its very large, sharply acidic fruit cooks down into a light, smooth purée and is excellent for pies and baking. The vigorous tree produces heavy crops and performs particularly well in cool climates. As a triploid and poor pollinator, it should be planted with two other compatible flowering apple varieties.

Bramley’s Seedling

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.

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SKU: 4309 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Bramley’s Seedling is the definitive English “cooker” – an apple variety used mainly for cooking purposes. Bramley is well-known for its rich sharp acidity – it has one of the highest acid contents of any apple variety. As a result it cooks down to a stiff but light apple puree, a key requirement for English apple cookery, with an excellent sharp flavour.

The copious juice makes Bramley’s Seedling valuable for juicing as well, and the juice can also be used in cider production.

The apples ripen fairly late in the season, and store well.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Seedling planted by Mary Ann Brailsford around 1809 at Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, then commercially distributed by Henry Merryweather in the 19th century.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Eating / keeping period

3 month

Use

Cider / alcool, Cooking, Fresh eating, Juice

Sweetness / acidity

Sweet

Disease resistance

Good

Self-fertility

Partially self-fertile

Pollinator value

Average pollinizer

Ploidy

Diploid

Origin and identity

Parentage

Chance seedling, parentage unknown

Synonyms

Bramley, Triomphe de Kiel

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Very vigorous, upright-spreading habit, very fertile, partly tip-bearing, triploid, poor pollinator

Disease behaviour

Scab

Slightly susceptible

Powdery mildew

Resistant

Canker

Resistant

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Additional variety information for Bramley's Seedling is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.