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Apple varieties, United States

Dermen McIntosh

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

Tetraploid. A sport of McIntosh. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1966 from the New York State Agriculture Experiment Station, Geneva, New York. Fruits have rather soft, very juicy, sweet flesh with a pleasant vinous flavour.

Family tree

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

Dermen McIntosh United States, by 1966
- Sport of McIntosh Canada, 1811

Sources

Dermen McIntosh (accession 1974 - 266), 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 september).