Filippa
syn. Danskt Filippeapple, Filippa's Aeble, Filippa's Apfel
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1880 by Filippa Johannsen of Hundstrup, South Fyn Island, Denmark. Received a First Class Certificate by the Danish Horticultural Society. Fruits have fine, tender flesh, with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 72.50 mm
- Height
- 66.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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