Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Pitmaston Pine Apple
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Mr White, steward to Lord Foley at Witley, England in about 1785. Introduced by Williams of Pitmaston, Worcester, England. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a sweet, rich, distinctive flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Pitmaston Pine Apple United Kingdom, about 1785
- Seed parent Golden Pippin United Kingdom, by 1629
Sources
- Pitmaston Pine Apple (accession 1955 - 024), 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.
- 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).
