Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Eastbourne Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1930 at Eastbourne, Sussex, by E.A. Lindley. Fruits have fine, tender flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Eastbourne Pippin United Kingdom, 1930
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
- Parent Margaret United Kingdom, by 1665
- Parent Emneth Early United Kingdom, by 1899
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
Sources
- Eastbourne Pippin (accession 1947 - 008), 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 august).
- 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 parents, Beauty of Bath and Emneth Early, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
