Applevariety
Gyllenkroks Astrakan
Also known as Gyllenkrok +1
Gyllenkrok · Gyllenkroksastrakan
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Fogelvik, north Tjust, Sweden
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.50 mmHeight 45.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Gyllenkroks Astrakan began
Recorded origin
Fogelvik, north Tjust
Sweden
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 57.50 mm
- height
- 45.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Gyllenkrok, Gyllenkroksastrakan
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.