The World of Apples

Apple varieties, New Zealand

Willie Sharp

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

Recorded 1905. From Auckland, New Zealand. Raised by H.E. Sharp. Described 1917, grown in New Zealand 1920s & New South Wales in 1960s.

Willie Sharp
Where Willie Sharp came from.

Sources

  1. Willie Sharp (accession 1951 - 266), 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 (early september); the other names.
  • Photograph of Braeburn apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Braeburn

    A Nelson chance seedling grown commercially from 1952; DNA names Delicious and Sturmer Pippin as its parents

    New Zealand, by 1952

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

    Captain Kidd

    New Zealand, 1962

  • Photograph of Cox's Early Export apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Cox's Early Export

    New Zealand, by 1950

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

    Dillington Beauty

    New Zealand, by 1872

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

    Freyberg

    New Zealand, 1934

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

    Gala

    Raised by J. H. Kidd at Greytown, New Zealand, about 1934 from Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious

    New Zealand, about 1934

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

    Galaxy

    New Zealand, 1985

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

    Gene Pitney

    New Zealand, 1962

All 24 varieties from New Zealand