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.
- Jennifer United Kingdom
- Seed parent Duchess's Favourite United Kingdom, about 1800
- Pollen parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
- Parent Margaret United Kingdom, by 1665
Sources
- 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).
- 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).