Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Corry's Wonder
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1917 at Eynsham, Oxford by E. Corry Hanks. Fruits have soft flesh with a sweet but acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Corry's Wonder United Kingdom, 1917
- Seed parent Beauty of Stoke United Kingdom, by 1889
- Pollen parent Lane's Prince Albert United Kingdom, about 1840
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
Sources
- Corry's Wonder (accession 1945 - 049), 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 (late october).
- 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).
