Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Scarlet Pearmain
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in England. Introduced in about 1800 by Bell, land agent at Sion House, Middlesex. Fruits have firm, crisp, coarse, yellowish flesh with a moderately sweet flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Pepin Shafranny × Glogerovka; Russia, 1907
2 varieties in the atlas descend from Scarlet Pearmain.
Sources
- Scarlet Pearmain (accession 1957 - 227), 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).
