The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Ireland

Ard Cairn Russet

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.

Ard Cairn Russet
Where Ard Cairn Russet came from.

Sources

  1. Ard Cairn Russet (accession 1905 - 004), 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); 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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