The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Poland

Elise Rathke

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

Raised either by Rathke of Pravst near Danzig or by A. Duhring of Elbinge, Germany. It was first recorded in 1884. Fruits have fine, soft flesh with a subacid and moderately sweet and spicy flavour.

Sources

  1. Elise Rathke (accession 1949 - 050), 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); the other names.
  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).
  • Watercolour painting of Danziger Kantapfel apples by Deborah Griscom Passmore.

    Danziger Kantapfel

    Described by Knoop in 1760 and grown in Germany under dozens of local names; a parent of Freiherr von Berlepsch

    Poland, by 1760

  • Fantazja

    Poland, 1944

  • Kosztela

    Probably raised by monks at Czerwińsk in the 16th century; a legend ties its name to King John III's garden at Wilanów

    Poland, 16th century

  • Watercolour painting of Landsberger Reinette apples by Ellen Isham Schutt.

    Landsberger Reinette

    Poland, about 1840

  • Ligol

    Selected at Skierniewice in 1972 from Linda and Golden Delicious; by 2017 the fourth most planted apple in Poland

    Poland, 1972