English Apples - Bramley
The most popular cooking apple. Large fruit, good flavour; stores all winter (can last until May some
years); OK as dessert apple in a sunny year after a couple of months' storage. Susceptible to scab. Triploid: sets a better crop
if other apples nearby. Pick mid to late October. Gets frosted in some years. Partial tip bearer. One of the
highest Vitamin C apples.
Graham Deacon
adds: Bramley Clone 20 is a shorter, jointed version with more compact growth of around 20%.
ND adds - there is also Crimson Bramley - a crimson sport. However, ordinary Bramley can be highly coloured
after storage
in a sunny year. The flavour, keeping qualities and vitamin C content are the same. Note that
vitamin C is only present in uncooked apples, in spite of what the books say. I've measured it.
Pictures (click on small images for detail):
Blossom
Fruit
compiled by Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
