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Apple varieties, United States

Edwards

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

Believed to have originated in Chatham County, North Carolina, USA. First described in 1869. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a sweet, subacid and astringent flavour.

Family tree

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

Edwards United States, by 1869
- Seed parent Hall

Where Edwards came from.

Sources

Edwards (accession 1957 - 160), 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 october); the other names.