Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Herefordshire Russet
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1975 by Mr Hugh Ermen, Faversham, Kent. Introduced in 2003 by Frank P. Matthews Ltd., Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. Fruits are crisp with a sweet subacid flavour
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Herefordshire Russet United Kingdom, 1975
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Parent Golden Delicious United States, 1905
- Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Herefordshire Russet (accession 1994 - 017), 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 (late september).
- 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, Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
