Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Frogmore Prolific
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1865 by Mr Ingram at The Royal Gardens, Frogmore, Windsor, England. Fruits are soft, fine-textured, acid and a little juicy, with no particular flavour.
Sources
- Frogmore Prolific (accession 1957 - 180), 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 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
