The apple which is said to have prompted Newton to formulate his theory of gravitation.
Origin: Kent UK,
1629
Pollination: Flower of Kent is a self-sterile triploid and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.
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History and description of Flower of Kent
First listed in 1629. It is identical to the variety growing in Isaac
Newton's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, Near Grantham, Lincolnshire.
According to the legend Newton was sitting under this tree when an
apple fell to the ground and gave him the ideas which lead to his theory
of gravitation. The original Isaac Newton tree died in 1814, but trees
descending from it by grafting still survive and include the Isaac Newton
trees at the National Physics Laboratory.
A large culinary apple, flushed and heavily ribbed. White, soft flesh,
tinged green. Cooks to a sweet puree. Spreading, part tip-bearing tree.