The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Wagener

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

Raised by George Wheeler at Penn Yann, New York, USA in 1791 and taken over by Abraham Wagener. Fruits have firm, moderately juicy flesh with a pleasant flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

  • Idagold × Esopus Spitzenburg; United States, by 1939
  • Idajon × Jonathan; United States, by 1949
  • Idared × Jonathan; United States, selected 1935
  • Ontario × Northern Spy; Canada, about 1820
  • Payette × Ben Davies; United States, 1936

12 varieties in the atlas descend from Wagener.

Wagener
Where Wagener came from.

Sources

  1. Wagener (accession 1976 - 149), 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 (early october); the other names.
  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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