Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Golden Spire
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Found in about 1850 in Lancashire by Richard Smith of Worcester who also introduced it. Fruits have coarse, crisp flesh with an acid and astringent flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Golden Spire United Kingdom, about 1850
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
- Parent Manks Codlin Isle of Man, by 1815
Offspring in the atlas
- Florence Bennett × James Grieve; United Kingdom, by 1971
- Peggy's Pride × Allington Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1944
Sources
- Golden Spire (accession 2000 - 039), 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 september); 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 parents, Keswick Codlin and Manks Codlin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
