The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Redfree

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

Raised by Purdue, Rutgers and Illinois Universities, Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Introduced in 1981. Fruits are sweet and crisp with an insipid flavour. Scab resistant.

Family tree

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

  • Redfree United States, by 1981
    • Seed parent Raritan United States, 1949
    • Pollen parent Melba Canada, 1898
      • Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
      • Pollen parent Tetofsky
Raritan Melba Redfree
Where Redfree came from. The lines lead to its parents: Raritan (United States) and Melba (Canada).

Sources

  1. Redfree (accession 1983 - 052), 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 (early september).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 594111 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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