The World of Apples

Apple varieties, New Zealand

Captain Kidd

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

A more highly coloured sport of Kidd’s Orange Red. Originated in 1962 in the orchard of Mr Robin Osborne at Twyford, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Introduced in 1969. Fruits are crisp, sweet and juicy with a rich, aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Kidd's Orange Red Captain Kidd
Where Captain Kidd came from. The lines lead to its parents: Kidd's Orange Red (New Zealand).

Sources

  1. Captain Kidd (accession 1971 - 046), 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 (mid october).
  • Photograph of Braeburn apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Braeburn

    A Nelson chance seedling grown commercially from 1952; DNA names Delicious and Sturmer Pippin as its parents

    New Zealand, by 1952

  • Photograph of Cox's Early Export apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Cox's Early Export

    New Zealand, by 1950

  • Photograph of Dillington Beauty apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Dillington Beauty

    New Zealand, by 1872

  • Photograph of Freyberg apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Freyberg

    New Zealand, 1934

  • Photograph of Gala apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Gala

    Raised by J. H. Kidd at Greytown, New Zealand, about 1934 from Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious

    New Zealand, about 1934

  • Photograph of Galaxy apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Galaxy

    New Zealand, 1985

  • Photograph of Gene Pitney apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Gene Pitney

    New Zealand, 1962

  • Hidala

    New Zealand, 1981

All 24 varieties from New Zealand