Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Cottenham Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Robert Norman at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England and introduced by H.J. Gautrey. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1924. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured, juicy flesh which is distinctly acid.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Cottenham Seedling United Kingdom, by 1924
- Parent Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
- Seed parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826
- Parent Bess Pool United Kingdom, by 1824
- Parent Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
Sources
- Cottenham Seedling (accession 1924 - 010), 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 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 parents, Dumelow's Seedling and Bess Pool, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
