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Susan Broomhall, Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University

Hidden women of history: how 'Lady' Williams founded a great Australian apple

Image credits: State Library of Western Australia.

On Boronia Farm, just outside Donnybrook in Western Australia, stands an 80-something-year-old apple tree (Malus domestica) that’s at the heart of a global industry.

This tree produced an apple no one had seen or tasted before, now called the Lady Williams. Without the Lady Williams, there could be no Sundowner®, no Pink Lady®, no Bravo® – apple varieties that, along with the Lady Williams, have made a enormous contribution to the global apple industry.

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