The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Sweden

Gyllenkroks Astrakan

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

Found in Fogelvik, north Tjust, Sweden. It was introduced by E. Lindgren, in 1863, although it is thought to have been known in the early 1800s. Fruits have fine, loose, white flesh with a subacid flavour. Flesh bruises easily.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

  • Alice × Ingrid Marie; Sweden, 1943
  • Sylvia × Worcester Pearmain; Sweden

Sources

  1. Gyllenkroks Astrakan (accession 1927 - 019), 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 august); 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).
  • 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

  • Painting of Astrachan Large Fruited apples by Henriette Sjöberg.

    Astrachan Large Fruited

    Sweden, 1850s

  • Birgit Bonnier

    Sweden

All 21 varieties from Sweden