The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Le Bret

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

This variety is sometimes mistakenly named Sweet Alford due to an error in a cider nursery some few years ago. An annual bearing variety originating from Devon in the mid 1900s. This variety is very susceptible to scab. Produces a sweet cider.

Le Bret
Where Le Bret came from.

Sources

  1. Le Bret (accession 1989 - 094), 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.
  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 589690 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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