Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Stobo Castle
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Believed to have originated in Scotland. It was introduced in about 1900 by Storrie of Glencarse. Fruits have crisp, white, slightly coarse-textured flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Stobo Castle United Kingdom, by about 1900
- Parent Cox's Pomona United Kingdom, about 1825
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Nonsuch Park United Kingdom, by 1831
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- Parent Ecklinville United Kingdom, by 1800
- Parent Cox's Pomona United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Stobo Castle (accession 1923 - 112), 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 august).
- 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 parents, Cox's Pomona and Ecklinville, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
