Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Nonsuch Park
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in England. It was described in 1831. Fruits have firm, crisp, greenish flesh.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Ribston Pippin × Margil; United Kingdom, about 1707
20 varieties in the atlas descend from Nonsuch Park.
Sources
- Nonsuch Park (accession 1964 - 065), 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.
- 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).
