Apple varieties, United Kingdom
I.B. Reid
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Said to have originated at Hutton near Lancaster, England. It was described in 1851. Fruits have firm, crisp, white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Sources
- I.B. Reid (accession 1980 - 069), 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 september).
- 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).
