Rewena
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at the Institute of Fruit Research, Dresden-Pillnitz, Germany. Introduced in 1991. Fruits have a pleasant flavour but tend to be rather sour. Resistant to scab, mildew and fireblight.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Rewena Germany, by 1991
- Seed 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
- Pollen parent Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Rewena (accession 1994 - 046), 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 october).
- 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).
