Martini
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Found in 1875 near Kollmar in Holstein, Germany. Fruits have firm, crisp, creamy white tinged green flesh with a subacid sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Martini Germany, 1875
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin or Prinzen Apfel or Edelsborsdorfer
Offspring in the atlas
- Red Martini Germany, by about 1938
Sources
- Martini (accession 1951 - 193), 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 (early october); the other names.
