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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Red Ellison's Orange

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

A more highly coloured sport of Ellison’s Orange. Discovered in 1948 in H.C. Selby’s orchard, Walpole St. Peter, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a rich and strong aniseed flavour.

Family tree

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

Red Ellison's Orange United Kingdom, 1948
- Sport of Ellison's Orange United Kingdom, by 1904
  - Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
    - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
    - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
  - Parent Cellini United Kingdom, by about 1828
    - Seed parent Hubbardston Nonsuch United States, by 1832

Where Red Ellison's Orange came from. The lines lead to its parents: Ellison's Orange (United Kingdom).

Sources

Red Ellison's Orange (accession 1979 - 179), 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).