Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Port Allen Russet
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Port Allen, Errol, Scotland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958. Fruits have fine, greenish white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Sources
- Port Allen Russet (accession 1958 - 023), 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).
- 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).
