The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Japan

Amanishiki

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

Raised in 1936 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. It was named in 1948. Fruits are sweet and insipid - fails to ripen properly in Britain.

Family tree

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

  • Amanishiki Japan, 1936
    • Seed parent Ralls Janet United States, about 1800
    • Pollen parent Indo Japan, by 1930
      • Seed parent White Winter Pearmain

Sources

  1. Amanishiki (accession 1953 - 013), 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 (late october).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 199525 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
  • Photograph of Akane apples.

    Akane

    Japan, 1937

  • Akibae

    A Nakano grower's 1981 cross of Senshu and Tsugaru; its dark fruit was ignored in Tokyo but welcomed in Kyushu

    Japan, 1981

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

    Aori

    Japan, by 1977

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

    Fuji

    Bred at Fujisaki, Aomori, from a 1939 cross; by a 2025 estimate it makes up 70 per cent of China's apples

    Japan, 1939

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

    Fukunishiki

    Japan, 1933

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

    Fukutami

    Japan, 1933

  • Photograph of Golden Melon apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Golden Melon

    Japan, 1931

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

    Hatsuaki

    Japan, 1939

All 37 varieties from Japan