The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Romania

Meri de Saminta

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

Received 1948. From Romania. Sometimes a hair-line on fruit.

Sources

  1. Meri de Saminta (accession 1948 - 642), 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).
  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).