The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Denmark

Cherry Cox

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

A sport of Cox’s Orange Pippin having a darker red skin. Discovered by Mr Roed in Kjer’s Orchard, Linved, Hjallese, Denmark in about 1942 and introduced to England in 1951 by High Weald Nurseries, Crowborough, Sussex. Fruits, like Cox’s Orange Pippin, have a rich aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Cox's Orange Pippin Cherry Cox
Where Cherry Cox came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Cherry Cox (accession 1984 - 173), 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 Bodil Neergaard apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Bodil Neergaard

    Denmark, about 1850

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

    Filippa

    Grown from pips sown in a pot by Filippa Johannsen at Hundstrup, Fyn, about 1880; a parent of Aroma

    Denmark, about 1880

  • Watercolour painting of Gravenstein apples by Mary Daisy Arnold.

    Gravenstein

    A triploid of disputed origin, linked to Gråsten Castle and to Italy; Danish growers named it the national apple in 2005

    Denmark, by about 1669

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

    Guldborg

    Denmark, by the 1870s

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

    Ildrod Pigeon

    Denmark, by 1840

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

    Ingrid Marie

    Found in a Fyn school garden about 1910; Denmark's most widespread apple until 1997 and still Sweden's in 2023

    Denmark, about 1910

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

    Josefine Kallehave

    Denmark

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

    Kortegaard Cox

    Denmark, 1914

All 15 varieties from Denmark