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Apple varieties, Canada

Caravel

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

Raised at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada and introduced in 1964. A biennial cropper. Fruits have firm, white flesh with a rather insipid flavour.

Family tree

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

Caravel Canada, by 1964
- Seed parent Melba Canada, 1898
  - Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
  - Pollen parent Tetofsky
- Pollen parent Crimson Beauty (Canada) Canada, about 1880
  - Seed parent Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier
  - Pollen parent Fameuse Canada, by about 1730

Where Caravel came from.

Sources

Caravel (accession 1965 - 008), 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 august); the other names.