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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Sweet Coppin

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

An old variety originating in Devon. Once very common in cider orchards in the Exeter area. Susceptible to mildew. The medium to large fruits ripen early November. Produces a pure sweet, sometimes a very mild bittersweet cider of good quality.

Sweet Coppin
Where Sweet Coppin came from.

Sources

  1. Sweet Coppin (accession 1989 - 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 (early november).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589688 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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