Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Box Apple
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Received by NFT 1955. From Cornwall, England.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Ben's Red × Devonshire Quarrenden; United Kingdom, about 1830
Sources
- Box Apple (accession 1955 - 077), 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 august).
- 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).
