The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Joaneting

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

Thought to be of English origin. Known before 1600. Fruits have crisp, white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Sources

  1. Joaneting (accession 1975 - 009), 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.
  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).