Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Fillingham Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated from seed sown or cuttings received from America by Mr Fillingham, Swanland, Yorkshire. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1923. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with an acid flavour. Can be propagated from cuttings.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Fillingham Pippin United Kingdom, by 1923
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
- Parent Reine des Reinettes United Kingdom, by 1800
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
Sources
- Fillingham Pippin (accession 1923 - 078), 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).
- 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, Keswick Codlin and King of the Pippins, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
