Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Hunt's Early
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in the UK. It was described in 1884. Fruits have firm, coarse, crisp flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Hunt's Early United Kingdom, by 1884
- Parent Margaret United Kingdom, by 1665
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
Sources
- Hunt's Early (accession 1999 - 080), 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 august).
- 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, Margaret and Reinette de Hollande, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
