The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Russia

Bellefleur Krasny

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

This apple is of Russian origin. It was raised in 1914. Fruits have sweet, firm but rather dry flesh.

Sources

  1. Bellefleur Krasny (accession 1975 - 342), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; 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. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
  • Coloured plate of Anis apples from A. Hrebnicki.

    Anis

    An old Volga folk apple whose clones bear small, bloom-dusted red fruit; Anis Polosaty has an anise-like scent

    Russia

  • Watercolour painting of Antonovka apples by Henry G. Van Deman.

    Antonovka

    Central Russia's old folk apple, prized for its scent and hardiness; DNA shows Schmidt's Antonovka is the same variety

    Russia, by 1826

  • Watercolour painting of Aport apples by Mary Daisy Arnold.

    Aport

    An old Russian apple, known in the West as Alexander, that became the celebrated Aport of Almaty after 1865

    Russia, late 18th century

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

    Bessemyanka Michurina

    Russia, 1912

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

    Byeloborodovka

    Russia, by 1842

  • Photograph of d'Eylau apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    d'Eylau

    Russia, by about 1812

  • Dolgo

    A Siberian crab brought from Russia to South Dakota in 1897 and introduced in 1917 for its ruby-red jelly

    Russia, 1897

  • Watercolour painting of Duchess of Oldenburg apples by James Marion Shull.

    Duchess of Oldenburg

    Borovinka at home; its hardiness in prairie test winters led Americans to import more Russian apples

    Russia, 1700s or earlier

All 23 varieties from Russia