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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Royal Jubilee

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

Raised by Mr John Graham of Hounslow, Middlesex. First recorded in 1888. Introduced by G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone in 1893. Fruits have firm, yellow flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well. Late flowering.

Royal Jubilee
Where Royal Jubilee came from.

Sources

  1. Royal Jubilee (accession 2000 - 085), 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.
  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 588900 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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