King David

King David, painted by James Marion Shull in 1931 for the US Department of Agriculture. James Marion Shull. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Washington County, Arkansas, United States, 1893
Parentage: Jonathan × Winesap Found from SNP data by Muranty and others (2020), which does not tell which bore the seed. The National Fruit Collection records Jonathan × Winesap or Arkansas Black
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, truncate conical fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour red
Flesh: Greenish; firm, coarse
Flavour: Subacid, slightly sweet
Ploidy: Diploid

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

Discovered in 1893 in a hedgerow in Washington County, Arkansas, USA. It was introduced in 1902 by stark bros., Louisiana, USA. Fruits have rather coarse flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet flavour.

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

King David United States, 1893
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
  - Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
    - Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Where King David came from. The lines lead to its parents: Jonathan (United States).

Sources

King David (accession 1943 - 006), 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 october).
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 parents, Jonathan and Winesap, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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