Pfirsichroter Sommerapfel
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to have originated in Thuringia, Germany. Described in the early 1800s. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Snovit × Stenbock; Sweden, 1936
2 varieties in the atlas descend from Pfirsichroter Sommerapfel.
Sources
- Pfirsichroter Sommerapfel (accession 1945 - 071), 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 august); 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).
