The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Sweden

Alnarps Favorit

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

Triploid. Raised in 1945 at the Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden. Selected in 1967. Fruits have sweet, soft flesh.

Family tree

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

  • Alnarps Favorit Sweden, 1945
    • Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
    • Pollen parent Alfa 68 Sweden, 1937
      • Seed parent Belle de Boskoop Netherlands, 1856
        • Parent Kasseler Renette
      • Pollen parent Fillippa
McIntosh Alnarps Favorit
Where Alnarps Favorit came from. The lines lead to its parents: McIntosh (Canada) and Alfa 68 (Sweden).

Sources

  1. Alnarps Favorit (accession 1968 - 056), 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); the other names.
  • 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 Alfa 68 apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Alfa 68

    Sweden, 1937

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

    Alice

    Sweden, 1943

  • 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