Balder apple

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

Raised in 1950 by A.A. Schaap at the Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits are very similar to James Grieve.

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

Balder Netherlands, 1950
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
  - Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
    - Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent James Grieve United Kingdom, by 1892
  - Parent Potts' Seedling United Kingdom, about 1849
  - Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
    - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
    - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831

Sources

Balder (accession 1966 - 044), 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 (mid september).

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 parents, Jonathan and James Grieve, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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