Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Woodford
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Essex, England. Known in about 1900. Fruits have coarse, soft, pale cream flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet and slightly perfumed flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Lord Derby × Forester; United Kingdom, by 1862
- Sandringham × Reine des Reinettes; United Kingdom, by 1883
5 varieties in the atlas descend from Woodford.
Sources
- Woodford (accession 1977 - 204), 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 september).
- 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).
