Pomme Royale

Pomme Royale at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale. National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, via Wikimedia Commons. Source; Open Government Licence v2.0.

Origin: United States, by 1835
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour yellow; over-colour slight brownish flush and marblings of russet
Flesh: Yellowish white
Flavour: Rich and subacid
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Bard Apple; Beard Burden; Beard Burdon; Beard's Burden; Bullripe; Coe's Spice; Dyer; Golden Spice; Harris White Hall; Mygatt's Bergamot; Mygott's Bergamot; Penneo's Favourite; Pinneo's Favorite; Pinneo's Favourite; Pinneos Favourite; Pomme Royal; Pomme Roye; Pomme Water; Pommewater; Smithfield Spice; Tompkins; White Spice; Woodstock

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

Believed to have originated in the USA. It was recorded in 1835. Renamed Dyer in about 1850. Fruits have fine, crisp, tender, yellowish white flesh with a rich and subacid flavour.

Sources

Pomme Royale (accession 1952 - 131), 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 (mid september); 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).

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