The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Orleans

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

Raised in 1912 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1923. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp flesh with a sweet flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Orleans United States, 1912
    • Seed parent Deacon Jones
    • Pollen parent Delicious United States, 1872
      • Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Offspring in the atlas

3 varieties in the atlas descend from Orleans.

Delicious Orleans
Where Orleans came from. The lines lead to its parents: Delicious (United States).

Sources

  1. Orleans (accession 1952 - 047), 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 (late september).
  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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