Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Bramshott Rectory
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to have originated in the garden of Bramshott Rectory, Liphook, England. Received by the National Fruit Trials in about 1938. Fruits have crisp, rather coarse flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Sources
- Bramshott Rectory (accession 1957 - 273), 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).
