Alice apple

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Raised in 1943 at Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute, Sweden. Introduced in 1962. Fruits are crisp and juicy but with little flavour.

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Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Alice Sweden, 1943
- Parent Ingrid Marie Denmark, about 1910
  - Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
    - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
    - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
  - Parent Cox's Pomona United Kingdom, about 1825
    - Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- Parent Gyllenkroks Astrakan Sweden, by the early 1800s

Sources

Alice (accession 1968 - 034), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late august).

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 parents, Ingrid Marie and Gyllenkroks Astrakan, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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