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Apple varieties, United States

Wrixparent

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

Thought to be a sport of Yellow Transparent. Discovered in 1920 in Magnolia, Kent County, Delaware, U.S.A. by Wrixham McIlvaine. Introduced in 1940. Fruits have crisp, coarse, juicy flesh.

Family tree

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

Wrixparent United States, 1920
- Sport of White Transparent Russia, by 1852
  - Parent Aspa
  - Parent Saint Germain

Where Wrixparent came from.

Sources

Wrixparent (accession 1974 - 265), 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 (early august).