English Codlin
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Culinary
A traditional English culinary apple of above-medium size with conical, irregular shape, pale yellow skin with faint blush, and white tender flesh. Ripens in August and keeps until October, prized for cooking and historically served in dishes such as 'Codlings and Cream'. One of England's oldest apple varieties, though often prone to canker and woolly aphis when raised from suckers rather than properly grafted on Sour Hedge Crab rootstock.
Flavor & Texture
acidictender
Best Uses
cooking
Lineage
Offspring
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- found wilding
- Known by
- ≥ 1600
agreeably acid
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 1880
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort