Democrat apple

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

Discovered in about 1900 growing in the orchard of J.D. Duffy near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is known as Tasma in New Zealand. Fruits have very firm, coarse-textured, juicy, sweet flesh but lacks in flavour. In Australia it is said to have been stored for over twelve months.

Family tree

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

Democrat Australia, about 1900
- Seed parent Hoover

Offspring in the atlas

Legana × Delicious; Australia, about 1940

Rosanne × Devonshire Quarrenden; Australia

Stowell Cox × Cox's Orange Pippin; Australia

Sources

Democrat (accession 1948 - 744), 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); 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).