Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Rathe Ripe
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in England. Described in 1831. Fruits have rather soft, rather dry, whitish flesh with a slightly sweet, slightly subacid flavour.
Sources
- Rathe Ripe (accession 1947 - 080), 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 august); 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).
