Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Burn's Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Henry Burn, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. Recorded in 1831. Fruits have very sweet, coarse flesh.
Sources
- Burn's Seedling (accession 1945 - 128), 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 (early 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).
