Edgar (Canada)
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was selected in 1929. Fruits have soft, sweet and juicy flesh.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Edgar (Canada) Canada, by 1929
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen parent Forest
Sources
- Edgar (Canada) (accession 1967 - 068), 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 (early october).
- 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).
