The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Sweden

Astrachan Large Fruited

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

Found in the 1850s near Stockholm, Sweden by E. Lindgren and introduced by him in the early 1860s. Fruits have firm, cream flesh with a sweet and subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Astrachan Large Fruited Sweden, 1850s
    • Seed parent White Astrachan
Astrachan Large Fruited
Where Astrachan Large Fruited came from.

Sources

  1. Astrachan Large Fruited (accession 1927 - 017), 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 (early august); 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

  • 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

  • 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