Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Devonshire Quarrenden
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to have arisen in Devon, but may have originally come from France. First recorded in 1678. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with a distinctive aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Ben's Red × Box Apple; United Kingdom, about 1830
- June Crewdson × Melba; United Kingdom, by 1943
- Newport Cross × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1920
- Rosanne × Democrat; Australia
- Thoday's Quarrenden United Kingdom, 1949
- Tydeman's Harvest × Worcester Pearmain; United Kingdom, 1930
- Winter Quarrenden × London Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1896
- Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
47 varieties in the atlas descend from Devonshire Quarrenden.
Sources
- Devonshire Quarrenden (accession 1957 - 189), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid 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).
