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Apple varieties, United States

Payette

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

Raised in 1936 by Leif Verner at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA. Introduced in 1944. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a slightly sweet and subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Payette United States, 1936
- Seed parent Ben Davies
- Pollen parent Wagener United States, 1791

Where Payette came from. The lines lead to its parents: Wagener (United States).

Sources

Payette (accession 1951 - 044), 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 october).