English Codlin

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.

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Origin & History

Status

commercial

Origin type

found wilding

Known by

≥ 1600

References

UK National Fruit Collection

1880

Cited authority (Hogg 1851)

Hort