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:
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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.

Recently updated

Etter 7-9 Apple (REWRITE)

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summary: Moderate-sized apple with with cream base colour, marked with red stripes. Pink and cream flesh.

Updated: 20 minutes ago

Landsberger Reinette (@3860)

Landsberger Reinette (@3860)

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Juice

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

Updated: 23 hours 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: 2 days 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: 6 days ago

Thompson's Apple

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Type: Eating

summary: A crisp and sweet fresh-eating, traditional apple from Northern Ireland.

Updated: 6 days ago

Surprise Reinette

Surprise Reinette

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summary: Grown in Switzerland in the 1800s and introduced in the United States in 1940, Accession P.I. 137-056.

Updated: 1 week ago

Custard Apple

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summary: This is NOT A TRUE APPLE but rather belongs to the Annona group which includes the pawpaw, as well as the cherimoya.

Updated: 1 week ago

Slack-my-Girdle

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Type: Cider

summary: A striped Somersetshire apple of large size. It keeps well, and is usually sold for culinary purposes, though it often helps to fill the barrel. As a cider ...

Updated: 1 month 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: 1 month 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: 1 month ago

Inored

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Type: Dessert, Eating

summary: Moderately sweet and scab-resistant, fresh-eating apple.

Updated: 1 month 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: 1 month ago