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Old 01-09-2011, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by bigjohnuk View Post
Can anyone give me the name for this apple tree and apples please.

Cooking or eating?
None of them quite look like a Bramley, which must comprise about 99% of the cookers grown in Britain. Bramley tends to have a rather deep flower-end to the apple, and a sticky surface. But there is a simple test for a cooker, taste them when they seem to be ready to pick, and if they are uneatably acid, then they are cookers.

Very difficult to identify apples to variety positively. Best to take some, leaf and fruit, to one of the Apple Day events that has an identification expert. Unfortunately this website, which previously listed all the apple days around the country, is still showing the 2010 list. Apple Day Events