Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Catshead
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in England and known in the 1600s. A distinctly angular and somewhat ugly apple. Fruits are coarse-textured and rather dry with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Catshead United Kingdom, 1600s
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
Offspring in the atlas
- Lord Derby Spur Type United Kingdom
- Sowman's Seedling × Bismarck; United Kingdom, 1914
Sources
- Catshead (accession 1927 - 027), 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 parents, Keswick Codlin and Hawthornden, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
