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Apple varieties, United States

American Summer Pearmain

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

Originated from U.S.A. First described in 1817. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Meku × Tsugaru; Japan, 1959

Sources

American Summer Pearmain (accession 1948 - 587), 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 (mid september); the other names.