The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Mother

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

Originated at Boston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. First recorded in 1844. Fruits have fairly firm, very juicy flesh with a sweet and distinctive good aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Mother United States, by 1844
    • Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
    • Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780

Offspring in the atlas

Sources

  1. Mother (accession 1975 - 317), 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 (late september); the other names.
  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 parents, Alexander and Hawthornden, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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