Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Beeley Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1880 by Rev. C. Sculthorpe at Beeley, Derbyshire. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, somewhat tough flesh. Juicy and sweet with a pleasant aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Beeley Pippin United Kingdom, about 1880
- Parent Golden Russet of Western New York United Kingdom, by the mid 1700s
- Parent Red Astrachan Russia, before 1816
- Parent Passe Pomme Rouge
- Parent Saint Germain
Sources
- Beeley Pippin (accession 1916 - 006), 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 september); 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 parents, Golden Russet of Western New York and Red Astrachan, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
