Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Redstart
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in about 1950 in an Oxford garden. Fruits have sweet, juicy, softish flesh.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Redstart United Kingdom, about 1950
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
- Parent Margaret United Kingdom, by 1665
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
Sources
- Redstart (accession 1977 - 068), 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 (late august).
- 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, Beauty of Bath and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
