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Apple varieties, United States

Levering Limbertwig

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

A larger fruited mutation of Limbertwig. Originated in Ararat, Virginia, U.S.A. by S.R. Levering. Fruits have fairly firm flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Levering Limbertwig United States
- Sport of Limbertwig

Sources

Levering Limbertwig (accession 1974 - 259), 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 october).