Macross
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1927. Fruits have fairly firm, coarse, crisp, tender, white tinged pink flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Macross Canada, by 1927
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Sources
- Macross (accession 1957 - 200), 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 (late august).
