Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Norfolk Beauty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Mr Allan at Gunton Park, Norwich, England. First recorded in 1901. It was introduced in 1902, in which year it received an Award of Merit and a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have rather soft, somewhat dry, acid flesh. Cooks well.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Norfolk Beauty United Kingdom, by 1901
- Parent Harvey United Kingdom, by 1629
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
Sources
- Norfolk Beauty (accession 2000 - 073), 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 (early september).
- 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, Harvey and Hawthornden, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
