Elektra
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Prof. M. Schmidt at the Agricultural Research Station, Munchenberg, Germany. Fruits have firm, juicy, sweet flesh with a good Cox-like flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Elektra Germany
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Pollen parent Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg Germany, 1897
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Ananas Reinette Netherlands, by 1821
- Parent Golden Harvey United Kingdom, 1600s
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Elektra (accession 1977 - 092), 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).
- Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 344551 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
