Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Harvey
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Norfolk and was named after Dr Gabriel Harvey of Cambridge. It was mentioned in 1629 by Parkinson. Fruits have firm, coarse textured, very dry flesh with a subacid and perfumed flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Norfolk Beauty × Hawthornden; United Kingdom, by 1901
Sources
- Harvey (accession 1920 - 016), 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 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
