Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Tydeman's Early Worcester
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1929 by H.M. Tydeman at East Malling Research Station, Kent. Introduced in 1945. Fruits have white, crisp, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a good vinous flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Tydeman's Early Worcester United Kingdom, 1929
- Parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
- Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
Sources
- Tydeman's Early Worcester (accession 2006 - 011), 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 (late august); the other names.
- 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 parents, McIntosh and Worcester Pearmain, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
