The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Nonpareil

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

Thought to be of French origin. It was introduced into England in the mid 1500s. Fruits have greenish white, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a slightly acid and pleasant aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

209 varieties in the atlas descend from Nonpareil.

Sources

  1. Nonpareil (accession 2000 - 072), 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 october); 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).

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