Roter Ananas
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Found at Sieglitzerberg on the Elbe by Richter, Germany. Described in 1854. Fruits have fine, firm, yellowish white flesh becoming pink stained under the skin with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Sources
- Roter Ananas (accession 1947 - 108), 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 september); 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
