Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg

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'Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg' is a German apple cultivar. It was created in 1897 at the Höheren Lehranstalt für Obstbau of Geisenheim in the Rheingau, in Hesse in central Germany.[1] It may also be known as 'Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg', 'Geheimrat Oldenburg', or simply 'Oldenburg'. It is a quite different apple from the older Russian cultivar 'Duchess of Oldenburg', also sometimes known simply as 'Oldenburg'.

'Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg'
GenusMalus
SpeciesMalus pumila
Hybrid parentage'Minister von Hammerstein' × 'Baumanns Renette'
Cultivar'Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg'
OriginGermany, 1897
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History

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The cultivar was created in 1897 at the Höheren Lehranstalt für Obstbau of Geisenheim in the Rheingau, in Hesse in central Germany. It is documented as a hybrid of 'Minister von Hammerstein' [de] and 'Baumanns Renette' [de];[1][2] A single-nucleotide polymorphism study has found it be a hybrid of 'Alexander' and 'Ananas Reinette'.[3]: 11 

Hybrids

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Cultivars that descend from 'Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg' include: 'Alkmene' (Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg × Cox's Orange Pippin); 'Apollo' (Cox's Orange Pippin × Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg); 'Clivia' (Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg × Cox's Orange Pippin);[4]: 539 ; 'Elektra' (Cox's Orange Pippin x Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg); 'Roba' (Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg x unknown);[2] and possibly 'Dukat' (Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg × Cox's Orange Pippin).[4]: 538 

References

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  1. ^ a b Obsttafel Nr. 250: Geheimrat Oldenburg (in German). Lemgoer Ortsgruppe im Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland. Accessed April 2014.
  2. ^ a b Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg. National Fruit Collection. Accessed October 2015.
  3. ^ Hélène Muranty, Caroline Denancé, Laurence Feugey, Jean-Luc Crépin, Yves Barbier, Stefano Tartarini, Matthew Ordidge, Michela Troggio, Marc Lateur, Hilde Nybom, Frantisek Paprstein, François Laurens, Charles-Eric Durel (2020). Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm. BMC Plant Biology. 20 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1186/s12870-019-2171-6.
  4. ^ a b K. M. Evans, A. Patocchi, F. Rezzonico, F. Mathis, C. E. Durel, F. Fernández-Fernández, A. Boudichevskaia, F. Dunemann, M. Stankiewicz-Kosyl, L. Gianfranceschi, M. Komjanc, M. Lateur, M. Madduri, Y. Noordijk, W. E. van de Weg (2011). Genotyping of pedigreed apple breeding material with a genome-covering set of SSRs: trueness-to-type of cultivars and their parentages. Molecular Breeding 28 (4): 535–547. doi:10.1007/s11032-010-9502-5 Archived 28 September 2013.