Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Mareda
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1926 at Scutes Farm near Hastings by A. C. Nash. Fruits have rather soft, creamy white tinged green flesh with a sweetish flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Mareda United Kingdom, 1926
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
- Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
- Parent Northern Spy United States, about 1800
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
Sources
- Mareda (accession 1945 - 036), 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 october).
- 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, Jonathan and Northern Spy, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
