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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Red Army

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

Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W.Wastie. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1945. Fruits have firm, crisp, creamy white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Red Army United Kingdom, by 1945
- Seed parent Chatley's Kernel
- Pollen parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
  - Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678

Where Red Army came from. The lines lead to its parents: Worcester Pearmain (United Kingdom).

Sources

Red Army (accession 1945 - 057), 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 (mid september).