Crimson Beauty (Canada) apple

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

Originated in about 1880 in New Brunswick, Canada. Fruits have rather soft flesh with a subacid to acid flavour.

Family tree

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

Crimson Beauty (Canada) Canada, about 1880
- Seed parent Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier
- Pollen parent Fameuse Canada, by about 1730

Offspring in the atlas

Caravel × Melba; Canada, by 1964

Quinte × Red Melba; Canada, by 1964

Ranger × Melba; Canada, by 1964

Sources

Crimson Beauty (Canada) (accession 1951 - 017), 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 august); 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).