The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Denmark

Ildrod Pigeon

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

Thought to have originated on the Island of Fyn, Denmark. It was known to have been in existence in 1840. Introduced by Mathiesens nursery in about 1873. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine white flesh with a sweet, subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.

Ildrod Pigeon
Where Ildrod Pigeon came from.

Sources

  1. Ildrod Pigeon (accession 1927 - 011), 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); the other names.
  • Photograph of Bodil Neergaard apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Bodil Neergaard

    Denmark, about 1850

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

    Cherry Cox

    Denmark, about 1942

  • 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 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