Lobo
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1898 at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It was introduced in Canada in 1910. Fruits have rather soft, fairly fine-textured, juicy flesh with a pleasant vinous flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Lobo Canada, 1898
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Offspring in the atlas
- Rodluvan × Barchatnoje; Sweden, 1970
3 varieties in the atlas descend from Lobo.
Sources
- Lobo (accession 1979 - 171), 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 september).
- 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).
