The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Japan

Indo

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

Originated in Japan. It was recorded in 1930. Fruits have firm, greenish yellow flesh which is very sweet.

Family tree

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

  • Indo Japan, by 1930
    • Seed parent White Winter Pearmain

Offspring in the atlas

  • Amanishiki × Ralls Janet; Japan, 1936
  • Golden Melon × Golden Delicious; Japan, 1931
  • Korei × Golden Delicious; Japan, 1935
  • Mahe × Golden Delicious; Japan, 1956
  • Mutsu × Golden Delicious; Japan, 1930
  • Ōrin × Golden Delicious; Japan, first fruited 1943
  • Shin Indo × Golden Delicious; Japan, 1930

8 varieties in the atlas descend from Indo.

Sources

  1. Indo (accession 1967 - 089), 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 (mid october).
  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 Akane apples.

    Akane

    Japan, 1937

  • Akibae

    A Nakano grower's 1981 cross of Senshu and Tsugaru; its dark fruit was ignored in Tokyo but welcomed in Kyushu

    Japan, 1981

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

    Amanishiki

    Japan, 1936

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

    Aori

    Japan, by 1977

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

    Fuji

    Bred at Fujisaki, Aomori, from a 1939 cross; by a 2025 estimate it makes up 70 per cent of China's apples

    Japan, 1939

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

    Fukunishiki

    Japan, 1933

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

    Fukutami

    Japan, 1933

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

    Golden Melon

    Japan, 1931

All 37 varieties from Japan