Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Lamb Abbey Pearmain
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1804 by Mrs Mary Anne Malcolm at Lamb Abbey, Dartford, Kent. It received the Award of Merit from the RHS in 1901. Fruits have firm, pale yellow, sugary and rich flesh.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Lamb Abbey Pearmain United Kingdom, 1804
- Seed parent Newtown Pippin United States, early 18th century
Sources
- Lamb Abbey Pearmain (accession 1945 - 150), 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 (late september); the other names.
- 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).
