The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Switzerland

Chusenrainer

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

Found in about 1852 by Joh. Waller, growing wild in Chusenrain - Sempach, Switzerland. It was named in 1891 by R. Stalder of Meggen. Fruits have soft flesh with an insipid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Chusenrainer Switzerland, about 1852
Chusenrainer
Where Chusenrainer came from.

Sources

  1. Chusenrainer (accession 1948 - 614), 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 (mid october); the other names.
  2. 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, Reinette de Champagne and Sauergrauschapfel, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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