The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Poland

Landsberger Reinette

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

Raised in about 1840 by Councillor Burchardt, Landsberg/Warthe, Brandenburg, Germany. It was awarded a First Class Certificate from the RHS in 1882. Fruits have soft, fine-textured very juicy flesh with a sweet and refreshing flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

3 varieties in the atlas descend from Landsberger Reinette.

Landsberger Reinette
Where Landsberger Reinette came from.

Sources

  1. Landsberger Reinette (accession 2000 - 057), 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 (late september); 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

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

    Elise Rathke

    Poland, by 1884

  • 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

  • Ligol

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

    Poland, 1972