The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Mercer

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

Collected 1892. From Illinois, Sherrard Mercer County, U.S.A.. Collected by Mr Fluke.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Mercer United States, by 1892
    • Seed parent M. ioensis
    • Pollen parent M. pumila
Mercer
Where Mercer came from.

Sources

  1. Mercer (accession 1948 - 739), 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).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589634 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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