Applevariety
Filippa
Also known as Danskt Filippeapple +2
Danskt Filippeapple · Filippa's Aeble · Filippa's Apfel
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in about 1880; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Hundstrup, South Fyn Island, Denmark
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 72.50 mmHeight 66.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Filippa began
Recorded origin
Hundstrup, South Fyn Island
Denmark
Filippa’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Filippa
Hundstrup, South Fyn Island, Denmark
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Gravenstein → FilippaParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 72.50 mm
- height
- 66.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Danskt Filippeapple, Filippa's Aeble, Filippa's Apfel
- parentage
- Gravenstein x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.