West View Seedling

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

Discovered in 1932 in Billericay, Essex, England by F.W. Rainbird. Fruits have firm, rather dry, greenish white flesh with an insipid flavour.

Family tree

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

West View Seedling United Kingdom, 1932
- Parent Ben Davis United States, about 1800
- Parent York Imperial United States, 1820
  - Parent Newtown Pippin United States, early 18th century

Where West View Seedling came from. The lines lead to its parents: York Imperial (United States).

West View Seedling (accession 1943 - 003), 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 october); 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, Ben Davis and York Imperial, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).