The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Young's Pinello

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

Raised by Miss E.L. Young, Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1935. Fruits have firm, fairly tender, white flesh with a subacid to sweet, slightly aromatic flavour.

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Young's Pinello
Where Young's Pinello came from.

Sources

  1. Young's Pinello (accession 1935 - 047), 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 (mid october).
  2. 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, Golden Russet of Western New York and Fameuse, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).