Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Yellow Ingestrie
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1800 by Thomas Andrew Knight at Wormsley Grange, Herefordshire, England. Fruits have fine, tender, greenish yellow flesh with a rich and subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Yellow Ingestrie United Kingdom, about 1800
- Seed parent Orange Pippin
- Pollen parent Golden Pippin United Kingdom, by 1629
Offspring in the atlas
- Glebe Gold × Cellini; United Kingdom, by 1945
Sources
- Yellow Ingestrie (accession 2000 - 102), 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 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).
