Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Golden Russet of Western New York
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to be of English origin. It has been known since the mid 1700s. Fruits have fine-textured, firm, rather dry flesh with a sweet and pleasant nutty flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Beeley Pippin × Red Astrachan; United Kingdom, about 1880
- Young's Pinello × Fameuse; United Kingdom, by 1935
Sources
- Golden Russet of Western New York (accession 1952 - 120), 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 (early october).
- 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).
