The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Nanny

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

Raised in Surrey, England. Recorded in 1842. Fruits have fairly firm, rather dry, cream flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.

Nanny
Where Nanny came from.

Sources

  1. Nanny (accession 1924 - 009), 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 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).