The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Storey's Seedling

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

Raised in 1927 by R.O.C. Storey, Northolt Park, Middlesex, England. Fruits have somewhat soft, white flesh with a sweet and slightly subacid flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Storey's Seedling United Kingdom, 1927
Newtown Pippin Storey's Seedling
Where Storey's Seedling came from. The lines lead to its parents: Newtown Pippin (United States).

Sources

  1. Storey's Seedling (accession 1945 - 001), 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 (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).