Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Fearn's Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in Mr Bagley’s garden at Fulham, London before 1780. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a slightly acid and pleasant aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- George Neal × Aport; United Kingdom, 1904
Sources
- Fearn's Pippin (accession 1945 - 186), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october); the other names.
- 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).
