Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Golden Knob
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated at Enmore Castle, Somerset. It has been grown since the late 1700s. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet and nutty flavour.
Sources
- Golden Knob (accession 1946 - 023), 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.
- 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
