The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Canada

Bancroft

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

Originated in Ottawa, Canada by the Division of Horticulture Experimental Farm. It was selected in 1930 and introduced in about 1935. Fruits have firm, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Bancroft Canada, by 1930
    • Seed parent Forest
    • Pollen parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Bancroft
Where Bancroft came from.

Sources

  1. Bancroft (accession 1950 - 150), 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 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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