Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Flame
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1925 at Boreham, Essex by W. Seabrook & Sons Ltd. Fruits have fine, crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Flame United Kingdom, 1925
- Seed parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
- Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
- Pollen parent Rival United Kingdom, by 1900
- Parent Peasgood's Nonsuch United Kingdom, about 1858
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Golden Noble United Kingdom, by 1803
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Peasgood's Nonsuch United Kingdom, about 1858
- Seed parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
Sources
- Flame (accession 1949 - 020), 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).
- Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 590176 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
