The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Jennifer

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

Raised by F.W. Wastie at Eynsham, Oxford. Fruits have firm, chewy flesh with a sweetish flavour.

Family tree

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

Duchess's Favourite Beauty of Bath Jennifer
Where Jennifer came from. The lines lead to its parents: Duchess's Favourite (United Kingdom) and Beauty of Bath (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Jennifer (accession 1944 - 040), 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 august).
  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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).