Apple varieties, United Kingdom
London Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in either Essex or Norfolk. It was recorded in 1580. Fruits have crisp, white, acid flesh.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Juno × Ontario; Germany, by 1971
- Signe Tillisch × Aport; Denmark, 1866
- Winter Quarrenden × Devonshire Quarrenden; United Kingdom, by 1896
4 varieties in the atlas descend from London Pippin.
Sources
- London Pippin (accession 1951 - 341), 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 (mid 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).
