The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Kendall

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

Raised in 1912 at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, by Richard Wellington. It was introduced in 1932. Fruits have soft flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Kendall United States, 1912
    • Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
    • Pollen parent Zusoff
McIntosh Kendall
Where Kendall came from. The lines lead to its parents: McIntosh (Canada).

Sources

  1. Kendall (accession 1950 - 139), 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 (early october).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589000 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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