Rubin

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

Raised at the University of Agriculture, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Selected by O. Louda in 1960. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

2 varieties in the atlas descend from Rubin.

Where Rubin came from. The lines lead to its parents: Lord Lambourne (United Kingdom) and Golden Delicious (United States).

Rubin (accession 1978 - 135), 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).