Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Fiesta
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1972 at East Malling Research Station, Kent. It received an Award of Merit in 1987 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits are crisp and juicy with a Cox-like flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Fiesta United Kingdom, 1972
- 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
- Parent Idared United States, selected 1935
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
- Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
- Parent Wagener United States, 1791
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Fiesta (accession 1983 - 038), 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 (late 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, Cox's Orange Pippin and Idared, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
