Prinzen Apfel
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Germany. Known in the 1700s. Fruits have fairly fine, tender, firm, yellowish-white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Prinzen Apfel Germany, 1700s
- Parent Prinzen Apfel Germany, 1700s
- Parent Boiken Germany, by 1828
Offspring in the atlas
- Filippa Denmark, about 1880
- Glockenapfel × Boiken; Switzerland, by 1948
5 varieties in the atlas descend from Prinzen Apfel.
Sources
- Prinzen Apfel (accession 1947 - 050), 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 (late 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 parents, Prinzen Apfel and Boiken, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
