Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Alfriston
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in the late 1700s by Mr Shepherd at Uckfield, Sussex and named Shepherd’s Pippin. Re-named Alfriston in 1819. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1920. Fruits are soft, coarse-textured, not very juicy and acid. Cooks well.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Morley's Seedling × Lane's Prince Albert; United Kingdom, by 1928
Sources
- Alfriston (accession 1957 - 178), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october); the other names.
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
