Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Parker's Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to be of English origin, but better known on the continent. It was received by Diel from England in the early 1800s. Fruits have fairly crisp, firm flesh with a subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.
Sources
- Parker's Pippin (accession 1947 - 102), 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 (early 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).
