Irish Peach

Irish Peach, painted by Bertha Heiges in 1898 for the US Department of Agriculture. Bertha Heiges. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: possibly Sligo, Ireland, by 1820
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: August, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, broad globose conical fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour orange, streaked
Flesh: White; firm, very fine
Flavour: Good aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Early apple; Early Crofton; Irischer Pfirschapfel; Irischer Pfirschenapfel; Irischer Pfirsich Apfel; Irischer Pfirsichapfel; Irish Peach Apple; Irlandi scher Pfirsich; Irlandischer Pfirsich Apfel; Irlandskoe persikovoe; Irlandskt Persikapple; Irlandskt Persikeapple; Irlandsktpersikapple; Irsk Ferskenacble; Peach Apple; Peche d'Irelande; Peche d'Irlande; Persikeapple

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

Raised in Ireland, possibly in Sligo. It was introduced to England in 1820. Fruits have white, moderately firm, juicy flesh with a good aromatic flavour.

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Offspring in the atlas

Rivers' Early Peach × Aspa; United Kingdom, by 1893

Sources

Irish Peach (accession 2000 - 051), 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 august); 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).

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Offspring in the atlas

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