Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Queen Caroline
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1820 by nurseryman T. Brown at Measham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, England. Fruits have firm, loose-textured, white flesh with an acid flavour.
Sources
- Queen Caroline (accession 1945 - 193), 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 (mid 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).
