Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Hog's Snout
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in the UK. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947. Fruits have soft, creamy white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Hog's Snout United Kingdom, by 1947
- Parent Manks Codlin Isle of Man, by 1815
- Parent Sturmer Pippin United Kingdom, by 1831
- Pollen parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
Sources
- Hog's Snout (accession 1947 - 235), 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 october).
- 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, Manks Codlin and Sturmer's Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
