Filippa is a Danish apple

cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...

. The cultivar was created by a schoolgirl named Filippa Johannsen (1842 - 1930) in

Hundstrup Hundstrup is a small town located on the island of Funen in south-central Denmark, in Svendborg Municipality. It is four kilometers north of Vester Skerninge and 14 kilometers northwest of Svendborg. The apple variety, Filippa originated in Hund ...

on the island of

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as o ...

. Some sources say the apple originates in 1850; other sources say 1881. Sonneruplund recommends this apple variety for private gardens, as it can be grown without the use of pesticides.

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