Fiessers Erstling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised before 1904 by gardener Fiesser of Baden Baden, Germany. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with an acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Fiessers Erstling Germany, before 1904
- Parent Bismarck
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
Sources
- Fiessers Erstling (accession 1947 - 469), 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 september); 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 parents, Bismarck and Keswick Codlin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
