Pedro
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1898 by Horticultural Division, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Introduced in 1913. Fruits have firm, crisp, white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Pedro Canada, 1898
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Sources
- Pedro (accession 1925 - 017), 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).
