The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Geneva Ontario

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

Tetraploid. A sport of Ontario having larger fruit. It was found in the orchard of New York state Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Fruits have rather coarse, soft flesh with a subacid and sweet flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Geneva Ontario United States
Ontario Geneva Ontario
Where Geneva Ontario came from. The lines lead to its parents: Ontario (Canada).

Sources

  1. Geneva Ontario (accession 1966 - 002), 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 october).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, tetraploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 613819 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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