The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Arkansas

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

Triploid. Originated near Rhea Mills, Arkansas, U.S.A. from seed sown in about 1833. Introduced in about 1868. Fruits have firm, cream flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Arkansas United States, about 1833
    • Seed parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Sources

  1. Arkansas (accession 1955 - 093), 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 october); the other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 588952 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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