Freyberg (apple)

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Freyberg (apple)
Art Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica )
origin Greytown , New Zealand
breeder James Hutton Kidd
Breeding year 1930s / 1940s
Launch 1959
ancestry

Cross of
Cox Orange x Golden Delicious

List of apple varieties

Freyberg is a cultivar of the cultivated apple . The apple originated from the cross-breeding attempts of New Zealander James Hutton Kidd , who tried to combine the taste of European apples and the look and yield of American apples. In taste and appearance, it is similar to its parent variety, Golden Delicious . Similar to Golden Delicious, and unlike Cox Orange , his mother variety, Freyberg is comparatively easy to grow and delivers high yields.

After an initial success with Kidds Orange Red , Kidd tried similar breeds for the last decades of his life. After his death in 1945, several hundred seedlings came to the New Zealand Department for Science and Industrial Research , which raised the trees and brought them to bear fruit. Seedling No. 21 was one of the most promising and eventually entered commercial trade under the name Freyberg.

The apple is medium-sized and has a green-yellowish base color similar to that of Golden Delicious. The apple is round and tends to be conical. According to the department's assessment, the apple was not quite as good-looking as the Golden Delicious, but it had a shinier aroma. Although it appeared suitable for commercial cultivation, the institute did not recommend it for large-scale cultivation as it would have competed directly with Golden Delicious.

The tree bears regularly and vigorously. In the 1960s he was in experimental cultivation for commercial cultivation in Germany. However, the growing season in Germany is too short for the apple to ripen.

The apple is named after Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg , the governor general of New Zealand from 1946 to 1952.

The apple is diploid and does not self-fertilize.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Freyberg , orangepippin.com
  2. ↑ a b c D.W: McKenzie and HM Mouat: Freyberg, a new apple variety, in: New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research in February 1959: 1085
  3. ^ DW: McKenzie and HM Mouat: Freyberg, a new apple variety, in: New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research Feb 1959 p. 1086
  4. ^ Johann-Heinrich Rolff: The apple - variety names and synonyms. BoD - Books on Demand, 2001, ISBN 3831109567 , p. 131