Minister von Hammerstein
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1882 in Geisenheim, Germany by R Goethe and named after the then Minister of Agriculture. Fruits have firm, creamy white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Minister von Hammerstein Germany, 1882
- Parent Landsberger Reinette Poland, about 1840
- Parent Calville Blanc d'Hiver France, by 1598
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Reinette de Saintonge
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
Offspring in the atlas
- Frau Margarete von Stosch × Weisser Winterkalwil; Austria, 1895
Sources
- Minister von Hammerstein (accession 1948 - 611), 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.
- 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 parents, Reinette de Landsberg and Calville Blanc d'Hiver, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
