Apple varieties, United Kingdom
May Queen
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Haywood of Worcester, England. First recorded in 1888. Introduced by Penwill’s. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1892. Fruits have firm, compact, yellow flesh with an unusual, sometimes astringent flavour.
Sources
- May Queen (accession 1921 - 018), 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 (mid 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
