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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Golden Harvey

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

Thought to have originated in the 1600s in Herefordshire. Fruits have firm, crisp, yellow flesh with a sweet, rich, aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Ananas Reinette Netherlands, by 1821

12 varieties in the atlas descend from Golden Harvey.

Where Golden Harvey came from.

Sources

Golden Harvey (accession 1954 - 024), 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.
Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 590128 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.