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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Improved Lambrook Pippin

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

Originated in the village of Lambrook, Somerset. Thought to be a seedling of Lambrook Pippin. Produces a mild, sharp cider/juice.

Improved Lambrook Pippin
Where Improved Lambrook Pippin came from.

Sources

  1. Improved Lambrook Pippin (accession 1989 - 091), 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).
  2. 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 589682 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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