The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Canada

Milfor

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

Received 1927. From Ontario, Ottawa, Canada. Originated, at Central Experimental Farm.

Family tree

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

  • Milfor Canada, by 1927
    • Seed parent Milwaukee
    • Pollen parent Forest
Milfor
Where Milfor came from.

Sources

  1. Milfor (accession 1957 - 202), 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 (late september).
  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).