Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Winter Quarrenden
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in the UK. Introduced by Pearson of Nottingham. Recorded in 1896. Fruits have crisp, tender, greenish yellow flesh with a slightly sweet and perfumed flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Winter Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1896
- Parent London Pippin United Kingdom, by 1580
- Parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
Sources
- Winter Quarrenden (accession 2000 - 100), 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.
- 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, London Pippin and Devonshire Quarrenden, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
