The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Belgium

Spaanse Keiing

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

Originated in East Flanders, Belgium. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, whitish flesh with an acid flavour.

Spaanse Keiing
Where Spaanse Keiing came from.

Sources

  1. Spaanse Keiing (accession 1948 - 599), 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 october).
  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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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