Burgundy apple

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Raised at the New York State Agricultural Experimental Station, Geneva, U.S.A. Introduced in 1974. Fruits have sweet, crisp flesh which is often heavily stained with pink.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Burgundy United States, by 1974
- Seed parent Macoun United States, 1909
  - Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
  - Pollen parent Jersey Black United States, by 1817
- Pollen parent Monroe United States, 1910
  - Seed parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
    - Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
  - Pollen parent Rome Beauty United States, by 1848

Sources

Burgundy (accession 1975 - 035), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september).

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).