Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Foster's Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in the UK. It was introduced in about 1893 by G. Bunyard, Maidstone, Kent. Fruits have tender flesh with an acid and vinous flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Foster's Seedling United Kingdom, by about 1893
- Parent Cellini United Kingdom, by about 1828
- Seed parent Hubbardston Nonsuch United States, by 1832
- Parent Reine des Reinettes United Kingdom, by 1800
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
- Parent Cellini United Kingdom, by about 1828
Sources
- Foster's Seedling (accession 1957 - 235), 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 (mid 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, Cellini and King of the Pippins, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
