Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Eynsham Challenger
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1935 by F.W. Wastie, Eynsham, Oxford. Fruits have rather coarse flesh with an acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Eynsham Challenger United Kingdom, 1935
- Seed parent Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
- Pollen parent Lord Derby United Kingdom, by 1862
- Seed parent Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
Sources
- Eynsham Challenger (accession 1960 - 042), 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).
