Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Queen
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by W. Bull, a farmer at Billericay, Essex, England from seed sown in 1858. Introduced in 1880 by Saltmarsh of Chelmsford, Essex as ‘The Claimant’. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1880. Fruits have white, rather soft, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a distinctly acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Queen United Kingdom, 1858
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
Offspring in the atlas
- Delectable × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1952
- Joybells × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, by about 1914
Sources
- Queen (accession 2000 - 079), 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 parents, Alexander and Hawthornden, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
