Red Astrachan
Also known as Abe Lincoln +59
Abe Lincoln · American Red · American Rouge · Anglese Pippin · Anglesea Pippin · Astracan · Astracan rosso · Astracan Rouge · Astrachan · Astrachan cerveny · Astrachan Red · Astrachan Rouge · Astrachanskoe Krasnoe · Astrahan Rosu · Astrahanskoe Krasnoe · Astrakan · Astrakan Rouge · Astrakhan · Astrakhan Rouge · Asztrahani piros · Beauty of Wales · Carmin de Juin · Castle Leno Pippin · Cerven Astrahan · d'Astracan · d'Astracan rouge · der rote astrachanische Sommerapfel · der rothe Astrachanische Sommerapfel · Deterding's Early · Deterling's Early · Duke of Devon · Hamper's American · Kaiserlicher Calvill · Krasnoe astra hanskoe · Olivka Krasnaya · Oliwka czerwona · Pomeroy · Pomme d'Astracan Rouge · Rau Astrakan · Red Astracan · Red Astrachan Apple · Red Astrakhan · Rod Astrakan · Rod Astrakaner · Roda Astrakanska · Rode Astrakan · Roode Astrachaner · Roter Astrachan · Rother Astracan · Rother Astrachan · Rother Astrakan · Rother Astrakhan · Rouge d'Astrachan · Rouge Hative · The Red Astrachan Apple · Transparent Rouge · Transparente Rouge · Vermilion d'Ete · Vermillon d'Ete · Waterloo
A cooking and dessert apple with greenish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early August.
Origin · Russia
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Red Astrachan began
Recorded origin
Russia
Red Astrachan’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Red Astrachan
Russia
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Abe Lincoln, American Red, American Rouge, Anglese Pippin, Anglesea Pippin, Astracan, Astracan rosso, Astracan Rouge, Astrachan, Astrachan cerveny, Astrachan Red, Astrachan Rouge, Astrachanskoe Krasnoe, Astrahan Rosu, Astrahanskoe Krasnoe, Astrakan, Astrakan Rouge, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Rouge, Asztrahani piros, Beauty of Wales, Carmin de Juin, Castle Leno Pippin, Cerven Astrahan, d'Astracan, d'Astracan rouge, der rote astrachanische Sommerapfel, der rothe Astrachanische Sommerapfel, Deterding's Early, Deterling's Early, Duke of Devon, Hamper's American, Kaiserlicher Calvill, Krasnoe astra hanskoe, Olivka Krasnaya, Oliwka czerwona, Pomeroy, Pomme d'Astracan Rouge, Rau Astrakan, Red Astracan, Red Astrachan Apple, Red Astrakhan, Rod Astrakan, Rod Astrakaner, Roda Astrakanska, Rode Astrakan, Roode Astrachaner, Roter Astrachan, Rother Astracan, Rother Astrachan, Rother Astrakan, Rother Astrakhan, Rouge d'Astrachan, Rouge Hative, The Red Astrachan Apple, Transparent Rouge, Transparente Rouge, Vermilion d'Ete, Vermillon d'Ete, Waterloo
- father to
- Carlton
- mother to
- Astillisch
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.