The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Pewaukee

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

Raised by George P. Peffer, Pewaukee, Wisconsin. First recorded in 1870. Fruits have fairly firm, coarse flesh with a subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Northern Spy Pewaukee
Where Pewaukee came from. The lines lead to its parents: Northern Spy (United States).

Sources

  1. Pewaukee (accession 1930 - 019), 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 october); the other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 590177 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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