'Cellini' is an apple
cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ...
that was selected from a seed of a tree referred to as 'Nonsuch', though that name is ambiguous.
[ It was introduced in about 1828 by Leonard Phillips, who operated a nursery at Vauxhall, London.][ It is a soft-textured cooking apple, juicy and coarse-textured. This cultivar is a parent of several other successful apple cultivars.][
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See also
*List of apple cultivars
Over 7,500 cultivars of the culinary or eating apple (''Malus domestica'') are known. Some are extremely important economically as Product (business), commercial products, though the vast majority are not suitable for mass production. In the foll ...
References
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British apples
Cooking apples
Apple cultivars