Primate

Primate, painted by Mary Daisy Arnold in 1925 for the US Department of Agriculture. Mary Daisy Arnold. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Camillus, Onondaga County, New York, United States, about 1840
Raised by: Calvin D. Bingham
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour light green to yellowish white; over-colour often slightly flushed red
Flesh: Whitish
Flavour: Subacid and aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Belle Rose; Early Baldwin; Early Tart Harvest; Harvest; Highland Pippin; Jenkin's Summer Pippin; July Apple; North American Best; Power's; Powers; Primates; Rough and Ready; Ryerson; Scott; Sour Harvest; Zour Bough

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

Thought to have originated with Calvin D. Bingham at Camillus, Onondaga County, New York, USA in about 1840. Fruits have crisp, fine, tender, whitish flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.

Where Primate came from.

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Primate (accession 1950 - 037), 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).

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