The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Vista Bella

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

Complex parentage involving Julyred, Williams Early Red and Starr. Raised in 1956 at New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Named because of its exceptional behaviour in the Guatemalan highlands. Fruits have creamy white, juicy flesh with a McIntosh type flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Vista Bella United States, 1956
    • Seed parent Complex - see description
    • Pollen parent Complex - see description
Vista Bella
Where Vista Bella came from.

Sources

  1. Vista Bella (accession 1971 - 048), 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 (mid august).
  2. 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).

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