The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Ireland

Almey

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

Discovered by Baylor Hartland in Cork, Ireland in about 1890. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1910. Fruits are firm, sweet with little juice. Flavour is slightly aromatic.

Almey
Where Almey came from.

Sources

  1. Almey (accession 1999 - 073), 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 (late september).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 588824 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

All 21 varieties from Ireland