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Apple varieties, Germany

Geheimrat Breuhahn

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

Originated in 1895 at the Fruit, Vine and Horticulture Research Station, Geisenheim, Germany. It was introduced in 1934. Fruits have fine, moderately firm flesh with a sweet and subacid flavour.

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

Geheimrat Breuhahn Germany, 1895
- Seed parent Halberstadter Jungfernapfel Germany, by 1885

Where Geheimrat Breuhahn came from.

Sources

Geheimrat Breuhahn (accession 1951 - 176), 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 (early october); the other names.