Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Thorpe's Peach
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1899 by Miss Goodwin at the nurseries of E.J. Thorpe, Brackley, Northamptonshire. Introduced in 1927. Fruits have firm, moderately crisp, fine, white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Sources
- Thorpe's Peach (accession 1928 - 011), 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 (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).
