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Filippa
type: Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Filipa
identification: Medium to large apples, slightly conic. Pale yellow skin with large red flushes on the sun exposed sides. Look for a profusion of small red dots.
characteristics: White flesh, crisp and juicy with a sweet?tart taste. Keeps for three months in cold storage
uses: Typically eaten fresh out of hand. However, it also makes a good apple pie and sauce.
origins: Believed to be a seedling of the Gravenstein apple. It seems that the daughter of a school teacher by the name of J.P.J. Johannsen found the some apples growing on a wild seedling and enjoyed the taste of them so much that she planted the seeds from the apple in her parent s garden in t village of Hundstrup along the southern part of Denmark s Fy Island in 1877. Neighbours and friends were soon asking for cuttings of this apple which was appropriately named after the girl who found the seedling. The variety was given first place by the Royal Danish Horticultural Society in 1889.
cultivation: Vigorous Tip bearer. Ready for harvest in the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
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