Kalco
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at the former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg, Germany. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1967. Fruits have a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Kalco Germany, by 1967
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Kalco (accession 1967 - 003), 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 (mid september); the other names.
