Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1897 at the Vine, Fruit & Horticulture Station, Geisenheim, Germany. Fruits have fine, softish flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg Germany, 1897
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Ananas Reinette Netherlands, by 1821
- Parent Golden Harvey United Kingdom, 1600s
Offspring in the atlas
- Alkmene × Cox's Orange Pippin; Germany, 1930
- Clivia × Cox's Orange Pippin; Germany, by 1961
- Elektra × Cox's Orange Pippin; Germany
6 varieties in the atlas descend from Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg.
Sources
- Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg (accession 1958 - 065), 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 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 parents, Alexander and Ananas Reinette, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
