Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Barnack Beauty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at Barnack, Northamptonshire in about 1840 and introduced in about 1870 by Brown of Stamford. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899 and a First Class Certificate in 1909. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with a good flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Barnack Beauty Sport United Kingdom, 1944
- Barnack Orange × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1904
- Jennifer Wastie × Ribston Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1945
Sources
- Barnack Beauty (accession 1957 - 207), 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 (early october); the other names.
- 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).
