The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Sweden

Silva

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

Raised in 1945 at Alnarp Agricultural College, Sweden. Introduced in 1970. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a sweet almost strawberry like flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Silva Sweden, 1945
    • Seed parent Melba Canada, 1898
      • Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
      • Pollen parent Tetofsky
    • Pollen parent Stenbock
Melba Silva
Where Silva came from. The lines lead to its parents: Melba (Canada).

Sources

  1. Silva (accession 1978 - 389), 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 (early august).
  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