Applevariety
Alfa 68
A cooking apple, broad round conical in shape, green-yellow skin, cream flesh. Picked in mid-October. Raised in 1937; introduced in 1954. Acid, juicy and firm.
Origin · Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden
Released 1954
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
Origin & family
Where Alfa 68 began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp
Sweden
- Released
- 1954
Alfa 68’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Alfa 68
Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- father to
- Alnarps Favorit
- parentage
- Belle de Boskoop x Fillippa
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.