The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Netherlands

Prinses Beatrix

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 firm, fine, rather tough flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Cox's Orange Pippin Jonathan Prinses Beatrix
Where Prinses Beatrix came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom) and Jonathan (United States).

Sources

  1. Prinses Beatrix (accession 1955 - 003), 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, Cox's Orange Pippin and Jonathan, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).