Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Rivers' Early Peach
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. Introduced in 1893. Fruits have coarse, rather dry, white flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Rivers' Early Peach United Kingdom, by 1893
- Parent Irish Peach Ireland, by 1820
- Parent Aspa
Sources
- Rivers' Early Peach (accession 2000 - 083), 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 (mid august); the other names.
- 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, Irish Peach and Aspa, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
