Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Shoreditch White
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Somerset, England. Described in 1884. Fruits have tender, yellowish flesh with a subacid flavour.
Sources
- Shoreditch White (accession 1947 - 512), 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 (mid september).
- 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).
