Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Hunt's Duke of Gloucester
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Dr Fry at Gloucester. It was introduced in 1820 by Thomas Hunt of Stratford-on-Avon. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a slightly subacid and nutty flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Hunt's Duke of Gloucester United Kingdom, by 1820
- Seed parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
Sources
- Hunt's Duke of Gloucester (accession 1948 - 508), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; 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).
