Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Lord Stradbroke
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originally found at Henham Hall, Suffolk, England in about 1900. It was awarded the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1905. Fruits have rather hard, tough, greenish-white flesh with an acid flavour.
Sources
- Lord Stradbroke (accession 1920 - 009), 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).
