Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Cornish Pine
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to be a seedling of Cornish Gilliflower. It was raised at Exminster, Devon. First described in 1920. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a sweet, slightly subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Cornish Pine United Kingdom, by 1920
- Seed parent Cornish Gilliflower United Kingdom, by 1813
Sources
- Cornish Pine (accession 1954 - 035), 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 (early october); the other names.
