Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Pitmaston Russet Nonpareil
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at Pitmaston near Worcester, England by John Williams. First fruited in 1814. Fruits have firm flesh with a rich, aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Pitmaston Russet Nonpareil United Kingdom, by 1814
- Seed parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
Sources
- Pitmaston Russet Nonpareil (accession 2000 - 078), 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 (mid 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).
