Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Downton Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Thomas Andrew Knight at Wormsley Grange, Hereford. It was first exhibited in 1806. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid, vinous flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Downton Pippin United Kingdom, by 1806
- Seed parent Orange Pippin
- Pollen parent Golden Pippin United Kingdom, by 1629
Sources
- Downton Pippin (accession 1948 - 022), 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); 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).
