The World of Apples

Apple varieties, New Zealand

Telstar

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

Raised in 1934 at Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand by J.H. Kidd. Named in 1965. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a sweet, slightly acid and rich flavour.

Family tree

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

Golden Delicious Telstar
Where Telstar came from. The lines lead to its parents: Golden Delicious (United States) and Kidd's Orange Red (New Zealand).

Sources

  1. Telstar (accession 1961 - 068), 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 (early october).
  • Photograph of Braeburn apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Braeburn

    A Nelson chance seedling grown commercially from 1952; DNA names Delicious and Sturmer Pippin as its parents

    New Zealand, by 1952

  • Photograph of Captain Kidd apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Captain Kidd

    New Zealand, 1962

  • Photograph of Cox's Early Export apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Cox's Early Export

    New Zealand, by 1950

  • Photograph of Dillington Beauty apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Dillington Beauty

    New Zealand, by 1872

  • Photograph of Freyberg apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Freyberg

    New Zealand, 1934

  • Photograph of Gala apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Gala

    Raised by J. H. Kidd at Greytown, New Zealand, about 1934 from Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious

    New Zealand, about 1934

  • Photograph of Galaxy apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Galaxy

    New Zealand, 1985

  • Photograph of Gene Pitney apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Gene Pitney

    New Zealand, 1962

All 24 varieties from New Zealand