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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Margaret Taylor

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Found in a garden hedge at Witley, Surrey, England by F.E. Taylor. Exhibited in 1944. Fruits have coarse, rather dry flesh with an insipid flavour.

Margaret Taylor
Where Margaret Taylor came from.

Sources

  1. Margaret Taylor (accession 1944 - 056), 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).
  2. 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).

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