Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Hoary Morning
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to have been raised in Somerset, England. It was first recorded in 1819. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, dry flesh which is not particularly acid and with no flavour.
Sources
- Hoary Morning (accession 1916 - 009), 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); 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).
