The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Japan

Aori

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

Raised at Aomori Apple Experimental Station, Japan. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1977. Fruits are very sweet and tend to have a tough skin.

Family tree

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

  • Aori Japan, by 1977

Sources

  1. Aori (accession 1977 - 114), 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 september).
  • 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 Amanishiki apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Amanishiki

    Japan, 1936

  • 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