Pomiferous

Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.

Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.

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Harvest period:
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Calville Blanc d’Hiver

Calville Blanc d’Hiver

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce

summary: This is the quintessential ingredient for French apple tarts. Aside from its wonderful flavour and sharpness, it holds its shape well when baked. It is also ...

Sekai Ichi

Sekai Ichi

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Type: Dessert

summary: Bred in Japan by crossing Delicious and Golden Delicious, the Sekai Ichi can grow extremely large.

Amère de Berthecourt

Amère de Berthecourt

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Type: Cider

summary: This bittersweet cider apple orginated in the 1800s in France and is valued for blending when additional bitterness is called for in hard cider.

Blanc Mollet

Blanc Mollet

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Type: Cider

summary: A French cider apple, medium body with a mild, bitter flavour. Classed as being very good.

Fenouillet Gris

Fenouillet Gris

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Type: Cider, Dessert

summary: This flavourful, russet apple with its anise flavour emerged in the 1500s continues to be appreciated to this day as a dessert apple as well as for making ...

Golden Harvey

Golden Harvey

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Juice

summary: Dessert apple, also used for making juice, but it shines as a cider apple providing an intense sweet-sharp flavour and high specific gravity in the juice.

RF: Niedzwetzkyana's Apple

RF: Niedzwetzkyana's Apple

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Ornamental

summary: Found growing scattered across the Shin Tan Mountains of Central Asia and introduced in the Western World through the latter half of the 1800s.

Alexander

Alexander

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Sauce

summary: This apple can grow huge and it can be grown from seed with reasonable chance that it will produce a similar tree.

Northern Spy

Northern Spy

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and moderately sweet. Flavour is quite sweet-tart. Browns slowly when the flesh is exposed to air.

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Storey’s Seedling

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Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Juicy, sweet and slightly tart.

Updated: 1 day ago

Rose Apple

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Type: Jelly, Sauce

summary: Despite what the name suggests, this tropic fruit IS NOT AN APPLE but rather a variety of Myrtle. Also known as Story Rose and Malabar Plum.

Updated: 2 days ago

RF: Pink Pearl

RF: Pink Pearl

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: A classic pink-fleshed apple developed in the 1940s by California fruit breeder Albert Etter.

Updated: 3 days ago

Rattler

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Type: Cider, Eating, Ornamental, Pollinization

summary: A yellowish eating apple, marked with a heavy pattern of dense, crimson striping. When the apples are ripe, the pips can be rattled in the core, hence the ...

Updated: 3 days ago

RF: Darlene Chapman

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: Naturally-occurring, red-fleshed and bitter-sweet apple. Lightly gnarled and russet skin texture.

Updated: 6 days ago

RF: Hidden Rose

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: A red-fleshed apple first found growing as a wild seedling in the early 1900s on Frank Story's farm in central Oregon (U.S.A).

Updated: 2 months ago

RF: Mountain Rose

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: Please see RF: Newell-Kimzey Apple. Listed as a Newell-Kimzey Apple RF: Newell-Kimzey Apple , also known as Bill's Red Flesh Apple RF: Bill’s Red Flesh . Marketed by Bill Schulz of Airlie.

Updated: 2 months ago

RF: ARFA

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: Abbreviated format for Aerlie Red Fleshed Apple. Please see RF: Newell-Kimzey Apple .

Updated: 3 months ago

RF: Bill’s Red Flesh

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: A small, though vigorous tree with bright pink flowers and intense, red-fleshed fruit.

Updated: 3 months ago

RF: Schultz Red Flesh Apple

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: A red flesh apple named by Bill Schultz.

Updated: 3 months ago

RF: Fred's Red Flesh Apple

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: Please see RF: Airlie Red Flesh Apple .

Updated: 3 months ago

Newell's Winter

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Type: Culinary, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse-grained and crisp. Juicy, sprightly and flavourful.

Updated: 3 months ago