The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Prinz Albrecht von Preussen

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

Raised in 1865 by Braun, Kamenz, Schleswig, Germany. Fruits have fine, soft, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Prinz Albrecht von Preussen Germany, 1865
    • Seed parent Aport Russia, late 18th century

Sources

  1. Prinz Albrecht von Preussen (accession 1958 - 063), 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 (late september); the other names.
  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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).