The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Annie Elizabeth

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

Raised by Samuel Greatorex at Knighton, Leicester in about 1857 and named after his baby daughter who died in 1866. Introduced in about 1898. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1868. A fine, late-keeping cooking apple.

Family tree

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

  • Annie Elizabeth United Kingdom, about 1857
    • Seed parent Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
      • Parent Reinette de Hollande

Offspring in the atlas

Blenheim Orange Annie Elizabeth
Where Annie Elizabeth came from. The lines lead to its parents: Blenheim Orange (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Annie Elizabeth (accession 1957 - 175), 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 (early october); the other names.
  2. 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).

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