Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Stirling Castle
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by John Christie, nurseryman at Causeyhead, Scotland. Introduced by Drummond of Stirling, Scotland. First recorded in 1831. Fruits have white, very soft, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with an acid flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Beauty of Moray × Keswick Codlin; United Kingdom, by 1883
Sources
- Stirling Castle (accession 2000 - 090), 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); the other names.
- 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).
