Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Mabbott's Pearmain
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in Kent, England. It was first described in 1883. Introduced by Lewis Killick of Langley. Fruits have fairly crisp, a little coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a slightly acid, pleasant aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Mabbott's Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1883
- Parent Reinette des Carmes
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Reinette de Saintonge
Sources
- Mabbott's Pearmain (accession 1957 - 246), 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 september); 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 parents, Reinette des Carmes and Reinette Franche, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
