Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Potts' Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Samuel Potts at Ashton-under-Lyme, Cheshire in about 1849. Fruits have greenish white, rather soft, fine-textured flesh with a very acid flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- James Grieve × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1892
24 varieties in the atlas descend from Potts' Seedling.
Sources
- Potts' Seedling (accession 1957 - 223), 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 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).
