The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Netherlands

Primus

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

Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits have soft, coarse, creamy white flesh with a very sweet flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Cox's Orange Pippin Primus
Where Primus came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Primus (accession 1955 - 011), 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 (early october).
  2. 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 parents, Reinette Rouge Etoilee and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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