Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Morley's Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by C. Morley, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1928. Fruits have firm, crisp, coarse, white flesh with an astringent flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Morley's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1928
- Seed parent Alfriston United Kingdom, late 1700s
- Pollen parent Lane's Prince Albert United Kingdom, about 1840
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
Sources
- Morley's Seedling (accession 1928 - 018), 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).
- 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).
