Apple varieties, United States
Winter Peach
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to have originated in the U.S.A. Known in England in 1853. Fruits have crisp, tender, yellowish flesh with an acid and slightly spicy flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Winter Peach United States, by 1853
- Seed parent Smiler United Kingdom, by 1934
- Pollen parent Snovit Sweden, 1936
- Seed parent Stenbock
- Pollen parent Pfirsichroter Sommerapfel Germany, by the early 1800s
Sources
- Winter Peach (accession 1979 - 125), 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 (late october); the other names.
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