Ashmead Kernel

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Ashmead’s Kernel is a traditional English eating apple with a distinctive pear-like flavour.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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Ashmeads Kernel is a very old traditional English russet apple. It remains popular for its distinctive pear-like flavour which is quite different from most other apple varieties.

As well as eating fresh it can also be used for cooking, or sliced in savoury salads, and it keeps very well in a cold store.

Ashmead’s Kernel is also prized for its juice, which adds an interesting fruity component to cider blends.

Ashmead’s Kernel data sourced from Orange Pippin .

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old English variety from a seedling planted around 1700-1720 at William Ashmead’s in Gloucester.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Parentage unknown, sometimes considered close to Nonpareil

Synonyms

Ashmead, Ashmead's Seedling, Doctor Ashmead's Kernel, Dr. Ashmead's Kernel, Aschmead's Kernel

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Moderately vigorous to vigorous, upright-spreading habit, spur-bearing, irregular production, triploid

Disease behaviour

Scab

Resistant / fairly resistant

Powdery mildew

Resistant

Ashmead Kernel

Variety characteristics

Origin and identity

Growth and adaptation

Disease behaviour

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