The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Netherlands

Ivette

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

Raised in 1950 by A.A. Schaap at the Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Introduced in 1966. Fruits are crisp, sweet, subacid with an aromatic flavour

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Golden Delicious Cox's Orange Pippin Ivette
Where Ivette came from. The lines lead to its parents: Golden Delicious (United States) and Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Ivette (accession 1966 - 045), 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 (early october).
  2. 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, Golden Delicious and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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