The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Switzerland

Schweizer Orange

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

Raised in 1935 at Eidg. Versuchsanstalt at Wadenswil, Switzerland. Released in 1955. Fruits have firm, creamy white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Offspring in the atlas

  • Goro × Golden Delicious; Switzerland, 1951
Ontario Cox's Orange Pippin Schweizer Orange
Where Schweizer Orange came from. The lines lead to its parents: Ontario (Canada) and Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Schweizer Orange (accession 1956 - 014), 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 (mid october); the other names.
  2. 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 parents, Ontario and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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