Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Star of Devon
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by J. Garland, Broadclyst, Devon. Introduced by George Pyne, Topsham. Recorded in 1905 in which year it received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have soft, greenish white flesh with a rather acid and faint aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Cheddar Cross × Allington Pippin; United Kingdom, 1916
- Plymouth Cross × Allington Pippin; United Kingdom, 1916
Sources
- Star of Devon (accession 1944 - 008), 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 october).
- 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).
