Some British apple varieties have gone completely extinct, which is bad news for growers, who lose the specific genetic information that can be used to breed better varieties in the future.

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We gardeners, on the other hand, can plant any of more than 5,000 apple varieties that strike our fancy. ... Cox is still grown by British farmers despite some commercial flaws.

The UK is home to many varieties of apples. But this ancestor of modern apples was lost – until some determined "apple detectives" set out to find it. In the family tree of British apples, there ...

Sam Knight on the struggles British apple farmers face, the many unique varieties of English apple that are disappearing, and the efforts to catalogue these apples. Skip to main content.

The explosion of crisp, commercial apple varieties in the last century doomed many other breeds into obscurity. But in a field in Kent in the UK, some of them live on. A few miles from the sea in ...

As British-bred varieties have slumped in popularity, foreign apples have thrived. Cox’s are in decline while Gala and Braeburn — developed in New Zealand — are booming.

British apples are now being supplied all year round, growers say, as production of homegrown fruit increases by almost 80pc in a decade. New varieties and technology improving orchards, storage ...

And superior flavor isn't limited to old apple varieties, British or American. Mutsu (Crispin) came from Japan in 1948. This large, round, yellow apple has a delicate, ...

British farmers will plant a million less apple trees this year as the industry is ravaged by inflation, labour shortages, climate change and cheap supermarket prices. Landowners across the ...