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.

Pollination group:
A B C D E F G H
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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Smoothee Golden Delicious

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summary: One of several naturally occurring mutations of Golden Delicious .

Updated: 1 day ago

Lady Williams

Lady Williams

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Type: Dessert

summary: A deeply red-skinned, medium sized, fresh-eating dessert apple

Updated: 6 days ago

Cripps Red

Cripps Red

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Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie

summary: Great for both fresh eating and baking, this Australian apple originates from a cross of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious carried out in 1973.

Updated: 6 days ago

Landsberger Reinette (@3860)

Landsberger Reinette (@3860)

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Ornamental, Pollinization

summary: Medium size to small, glossy, soft-fleshed, Type 2 apple. Developed in Northern Germany. Juicy, mildly sweet and resistant to most diseases.

Updated: 1 week ago

Burchardt's Gold Renette (@1048)

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Ornamental, Pollinization

summary: A medium size, glossy, soft-fleshed, Type 2 apple developed in northern Germany. Juicy, mildly sweet and resistant to most diseases.

Updated: 1 week ago

Etter 16-32

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Juice, Ornamental, Pie

summary: Descended from the red-fleshed apples that date back to the pink fleshed Surprise apples found growing in the Eurasian hill-country in the early 1800s.

Updated: 2 weeks ago

Thornberry

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: Descended from the red-fleshed apples that date back to the pink fleshed Surprise apples found growing in the Eurasian hill-country in the early 1800s.

Updated: 2 weeks ago

Mayo Apple

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice, Ornamental, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: This chance seedling tree was found growing in Vermont State of the northeastern United States during the early 2000s. It produces abundant harvests of ...

Updated: 2 weeks ago

RF: Hidden Rose

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

summary: Please see Airlie Red Flesh apple (#77).

Updated: 2 weeks ago

Storey’s Seedling Apple

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

summary: A sweet and mildly tart dessert apple developed in Britain.

Updated: 3 weeks ago

Etter 7-9 Apple REWRITE

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

summary: Produces moderate-sized apple with with cream base colour, marked with red stripes. Pink and cream flesh. Type Two Redflesh.

Updated: 3 weeks ago

Surprise (Veitch) @6223

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Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie

summary: Small to medium size (maximum tennis ball size). Tapered, conical shape and lightly ribbed. Sometimes lightly russeted. Skin colour at full ripeness is yellow, ...

Updated: 3 weeks ago