Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Sunrise
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to have been raised at Welford Park, Berkshire, England. Recorded in 1897. Fruits have soft, tender, whitish flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Sunrise United Kingdom, by 1897
- Seed parent Northern Spy United States, about 1800
Sources
- Sunrise (accession 1999 - 087), 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 (mid september).
- 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).
