Macwood
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1936 at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Fruits have firm, somewhat coarse flesh, with a sweet, perfumed flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Macwood Canada, 1936
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen parent Forest
Sources
- Macwood (accession 1950 - 146), 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 (mid october).
