The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Hungary

Keresi Muskotaly

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

Received by Berezcki 1882. From Raised in Kercs village in Szabolcs county, north-east Hungary (Berezcki says Bereg county), Hungary. Found by Mr Imre Uary in his mother’s vineyard.

Sources

  1. Keresi Muskotaly (accession 1948 - 381), 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 (mid october).
  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).