Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Cellini
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Leonard Phillips, a nurseryman at Vauxhall, London. Introduced in about 1828. Fruits have rather soft, juicy, coarse-textured flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Cellini United Kingdom, by about 1828
- Seed parent Hubbardston Nonsuch United States, by 1832
Offspring in the atlas
- Duchess of Bedford × Beauty of Bath; United Kingdom, by 1918
- Ellison's Orange × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1904
- Exquisite × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1902
- Foster's Seedling × Reine des Reinettes; United Kingdom, by about 1893
- Glebe Gold × Yellow Ingestrie; United Kingdom, by 1945
- Herring's Pippin × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1908
- Laxton's Pearmain × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1897
- Laxton's Superb × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1897
20 varieties in the atlas descend from Cellini.
Sources
- Cellini (accession 1947 - 310), 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 september); 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).
