Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Hawthornden
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Scotland. It was first catalogued in 1780. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Catshead × Keswick Codlin; United Kingdom, 1600s
- Emneth Early × Keswick Codlin; United Kingdom, by 1899
- Lane's Prince Albert United Kingdom, about 1840
- Mother × Aport; United States, by 1844
- Norfolk Beauty × Harvey; United Kingdom, by 1901
- Queen × Aport; United Kingdom, 1858
- Robert Blatchford × Golden Noble; United Kingdom, by 1914
- Williams Favourite × Aport; United States, about 1750
26 varieties in the atlas descend from Hawthornden.
Sources
- Hawthornden (accession 1999 - 078), 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).
