Spiza
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised or introduced in 1916 in Ottawa, Canada. Fruits have crisp, coarse, yellowish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Spiza Canada, by 1916
- Seed parent Northern Spy United States, about 1800
Sources
- Spiza (accession 1951 - 032), 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 (early october).
