Odin apple

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

Raised in 1953 by A.A. Schaap at the Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Introduced in 1966. Fruits are crisp and juicy with a good flavour.

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

Odin Netherlands, 1953
- Parent Golden Delicious United States, 1905
  - Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804
- Parent Ingrid Marie Denmark, about 1910
  - Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
    - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
    - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
  - Parent Cox's Pomona United Kingdom, about 1825
    - Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707

Sources

Odin (accession 1966 - 046), 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 (mid 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, Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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