Zone 4 – England. ca. 1846 – Standard and dwarf rootstock
Cooking, bakingLate season
Parentage: a cross between an unknown seedling × GravensteinBramley has excellent culinary characteristics, and is extremely large in size. A somewhat blocky, round fruit, the skin is grass-green with red striping where exposed to sun. Bramley has a short thick stem. This apple tends to ripen around mid-late October in New Brunswick. The flesh is white, often tinged with green. It keeps well in cold storage till around mid-winter. Fruit and leaves are both resistant to apple scab. Bramley is a triploid apple and will require pollination from two diploid cultivars.
