The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Denmark

Skovfoged

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

Thought to have originated in Denmark. Known in the early 1800s. Fruits have firm, fine, rather dry flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.

Sources

  1. Skovfoged (accession 1927 - 005), 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 august); 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).
  • 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 Ildrod Pigeon apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Ildrod Pigeon

    Denmark, by 1840

  • 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

All 15 varieties from Denmark