Boiken
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in Bremen, Germany and named after Dikewarden Boike. Known since 1828. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy, acid flesh with very little flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Altlander Pfannkuchenapfel × Dutch Mignonne; Germany, 1840
- Glockenapfel × Prinzen Apfel; Switzerland, by 1948
- Prinzen Apfel × Prinzen Apfel; Germany, 1700s
7 varieties in the atlas descend from Boiken.
Sources
- Boiken (accession 1927 - 021), 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 (late 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).
