The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Sweden

Alfa 68

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Raised in 1937 at the Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden. It was introduced in 1954. Fruits have firm, tender, juicy, acid flesh, with a good flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Alfa 68 Sweden, 1937
    • Seed parent Belle de Boskoop Netherlands, 1856
      • Parent Kasseler Renette
    • Pollen parent Fillippa

Offspring in the atlas

Belle de Boskoop Alfa 68
Where Alfa 68 came from. The lines lead to its parents: Belle de Boskoop (Netherlands).

Sources

  1. Alfa 68 (accession 1968 - 057), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 247442 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
  • Photograph of Åkerö apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Åkerö

    Named after a Södermanland manor where its 18th-century mother tree still stood in 2020; described by Eneroth in 1858

    Sweden, mid-18th century

  • Photograph of Alice apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Alice

    Sweden, 1943

  • Photograph of Alnarps Favorit apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Alnarps Favorit

    Sweden, 1945

  • Amorosa

    Sweden

  • Photograph of Aroma apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Aroma

    Crossed in 1947 from Ingrid Marie and Filippa and released by Balsgård in 1973; second in Swedish orchards in 2023

    Sweden, 1947

  • Painting of Astrachan Large Fruited apples by Henriette Sjöberg.

    Astrachan Large Fruited

    Sweden, 1850s

  • Birgit Bonnier

    Sweden

  • Photograph of Eva Lotta apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Eva Lotta

    Sweden

All 21 varieties from Sweden