Hubbard's Pearmain

Hubbard's Pearmain, painted by William Henry Prestele in 1888 for the US Department of Agriculture. William Henry Prestele. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Norfolk, United Kingdom, before 1800
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, conical fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour orange, striped
Flesh: Cream; soft, coarse
Flavour: Slightly sweet and rich
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Golden King; Golden Russet Pearmain; Golden Vining; Hammon's; Hammon's Pearmain; Hammond's Pearmain; Hammons Pearmain; Hubbard's; Hubbard's Russet Pearmain; Hublard Pearmain; Russet Pearmain

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Originated in Norfolk, England. It was known before 1800. Fruits have coarse, soft, dry flesh with a slightly sweet and rich flavour.

Where Hubbard's Pearmain came from.

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Hubbard's Pearmain (accession 2000 - 050), 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.
Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 590130 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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