Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Winter Marigold
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in the UK. Recorded in 1865. Fruits have fairly tender, whitish flesh with a sweet and perfumed flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Fred Webb × Gascoyne's Scarlet; United Kingdom, about 1935
Sources
- Winter Marigold (accession 1946 - 088), 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.
- 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).
