The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Australia

Legana

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

Raised in about 1940 by J. Bulman, Legana, Tasmania, Australia. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Legana Australia, about 1940
    • Seed parent Democrat Australia, about 1900
      • Seed parent Hoover
    • Pollen parent Delicious United States, 1872
      • Parent Winesap United States, by 1817
Democrat Delicious Legana
Where Legana came from. The lines lead to its parents: Democrat (Australia) and Delicious (United States).

Sources

  1. Legana (accession 1952 - 225), 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 (late october).
  • Watercolour painting of Ballarat Seedling apples by Ellen Isham Schutt.

    Ballarat Seedling

    Australia, by the early 1900s

  • Cripps Pink

    Bred by John Cripps from a 1973 cross of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious; top-grade fruit is sold as Pink Lady

    Australia, 1973

  • Cripps Red

    Cripps Pink's sister seedling from a 1973 cross at Stoneville, Western Australia: very late, very firm and tangy

    Australia, 1973

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

    Democrat

    Australia, about 1900

  • Photograph of Dunn's Seedling apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Dunn's Seedling

    Australia, by 1890

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

    Geeveston Fanny

    Australia, by 1880

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

    Glengyle Red

    Australia, 1914

  • Watercolour painting of Granny Smith apples by Royal Charles Steadman.

    Granny Smith

    From Maria Ann Smith's orchard near Sydney; by 1975 it made up 39 per cent of Australia's apple crop

    Australia, 1868

All 16 varieties from Australia