Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Lodgemore Nonpareil
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1808 by Mr Cook of Lodgemore, Stroud, England. It was introduced by Clissold. Fruits have firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a sweet and perfumed flavour.
Sources
- Lodgemore Nonpareil (accession 1962 - 033), 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); 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).
