Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Thomas Jeffrey
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by D.W. Thomson, Edinburgh, Scotland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1923. Received an award from the Royal Caledonian Society some years before 1923. Fruits have tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid and a little bitter flavour.
Sources
- Thomas Jeffrey (accession 1923 - 114), 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
