Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Siddington Russet
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
A russetted sport of Galloway Pippin. Discovered in 1923 by John Jeffries & Sons Ltd., at Siddington, Gloucestershire. Fruits have firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Siddington Russet United Kingdom, 1923
- Sport of Galloway Pippin United Kingdom, by 1871
Sources
- Siddington Russet (accession 1934 - 001), 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 (late september).
