Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Breakwell's Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated at Perthyre Farm, Monmouth, Wales in the late 1800s. It was propagated by George Breakwell who also introduced the variety to Bulmers as a valuable early-ripening cider variety. Trees are fairly vigorous with characteristic luxuriant, dark-green foliage. Fruit is small to medium in size. A medium bittersweet variety producing a thin, light, average cider.
Sources
- Breakwell's Seedling (accession 1989 - 065), 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 (mid september).
- Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 590087 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
