Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Warner's King
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Believed to have originated in Kent. Known since the late 1700s (prior name King Apple). It was sent by Warner to Rivers Nursery who gave it the distinguishing prefix. Fruits have rather soft, a little coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a very acid flavour. Cooks well.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Encore × Northern Greening; United Kingdom, by 1906
Sources
- Warner's King (accession 1976 - 150), 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 september); the other names.
- Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, tetraploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 588833 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
