The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Poland

Fantazja

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

Raised in 1944 by A.Rejman, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland. It was introduced in 1960. Fruits have fine, very juicy flesh with a rich and good flavour.

Fantazja
Where Fantazja came from.

Sources

  1. Fantazja (accession 1971 - 121), 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 (early october).
  • 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

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

    Elise Rathke

    Poland, by 1884

  • 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