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Apple varieties, United States

Perrine Yellow Transparent

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

A tetraploid bud mutation of White Transparent, ripening one week earlier. Discovered in about 1930 by D.B. Perrine in Centralia, Illinois, USA. Introduced in 1961. Fruits have white, rather coarse-textured, acid flesh with little flavour.

Family tree

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

Perrine Yellow Transparent United States, about 1930
- Sport of White Transparent Russia, by 1852
  - Parent Aspa
  - Parent Saint Germain

Where Perrine Yellow Transparent came from.

Sources

Perrine Yellow Transparent (accession 1954 - 054), 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 july); the other names.