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Apple varieties, United States

Excel

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

Recorded 1867. From Connecticut, Sharon, U.S.A.. In existence 1884.

Family tree

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

Excel United States, by 1867
- Sport of Jonagold United States, 1943
  - Seed parent Golden Delicious United States, 1905
    - Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804
  - Pollen parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
    - Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790

Where Excel came from. The lines lead to its parents: Jonagold (United States).

Sources

Excel (accession 2002 - 041), 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.