The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Switzerland

Glockenapfel

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

Received by NFT 1948. From Switzerland.

Family tree

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

Offspring in the atlas

  • Gloster × Richared Delicious; Germany, 1951

Sources

  1. Glockenapfel (accession 1948 - 613), 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 (mid october); the other names.
  2. 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, Prinzen Apfel and Boiken, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

All 18 varieties from Switzerland