Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Jennifer Wastie
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by F.W. Wastie at Eynsham, Oxford. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1945. Fruits have firm, chewy flesh with a sweetish flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Jennifer Wastie United Kingdom, by 1945
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Nonsuch Park United Kingdom, by 1831
- Pollen parent Barnack Beauty United Kingdom, about 1840
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
Sources
- Jennifer Wastie (accession 1945 - 063), 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 (late 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).
