Lady Isabel

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

Found in 1939 by Mrs Reading at Guildford, Surrey. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Lady Isabel United Kingdom, 1939
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Sturmer Pippin United Kingdom, by 1831
  - Pollen parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s

Where Lady Isabel came from. The lines lead to its parents: Sturmer Pippin (United Kingdom).

Lady Isabel (accession 1949 - 072), 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 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, Alexander and Sturmer's Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).