Schoner von Nordhausen
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in the early 1800s in the garden of Kaiser, Nordhausen, Germany. Introduced in 1892. Fruits have fine, moderately firm, yellowish white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Auralia × Cox's Orange Pippin; Germany, by 1967
2 varieties in the atlas descend from Schoner von Nordhausen.
Sources
- Schoner von Nordhausen (accession 1947 - 073), 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 (early october); 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).
