The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Austria

Frau Margarete von Stosch

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Crossed 1895. From Austria.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Sources

  1. Frau Margarete von Stosch (accession 1947 - 062), 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 august).
  2. 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).