Applevariety
Astrachan Large Fruited
Also known as Klarapple +2
Klarapple · Lindgrens Astrakan · Stor Klar Astrakan
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early August.
Origin · near Stockholm, Sweden
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 70.50 mmHeight 62.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Astrachan Large Fruited began
Recorded origin
near Stockholm
Sweden
Astrachan Large Fruited’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Astrachan Large Fruited
near Stockholm, Sweden
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
White Astrachan → Astrachan Large FruitedParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 70.50 mm
- height
- 62.00 mm
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Klarapple, Lindgrens Astrakan, Stor Klar Astrakan
- parentage
- White Astrachan x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.