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Apple varieties, Australia

Glengyle Red

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

A more highly coloured sport of Rome Beauty. It originated in 1914 at Balhannah, South Australia. Fruits have creamy white, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh but with little flavour. Skin tends to be tough.

Family tree

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

Glengyle Red Australia, 1914
- Sport of Rome Beauty United States, by 1848

Where Glengyle Red came from. The lines lead to its parents: Rome Beauty (United States).

Sources

Glengyle Red (accession 1950 - 129), 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 (mid october).