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, Pollinization, Sauce

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

Burford's Red Flesh

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summary: Popular since the 1800s, this red-flesh cider apple favours warm climates.

Updated: 11 hours ago

Clifford's Red Flesh Apple

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

summary: Red-fleshed apples have been grown in the heart of Amhurst County, Virginia, U.S.A. since the mid-1700s, when the area was was settled by Scottish immigrants ...

Updated: 11 hours 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: 22 hours ago

RF: Scarlet Surprise

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Type: Dessert

summary: not available

Updated: 22 hours 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 early 1940s by California fruit breeder Albert Etter.

Updated: 1 day ago

WA 2

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Eating, Jelly, Pie, Pollinization

summary: Developed by Washington State University, this multi-purpose, compact apple is crisp, sweet-tart and has a long storage life.

Updated: 1 day ago

Rubaiyat

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization

summary: This deeply-coloured crab apple is favoured for cider, pies and desserts.

Updated: 1 week ago

Pink Delight (@4969)

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summary: Please see WA-2

Updated: 1 week ago

Pink Lady (Canada)

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Type: Eating, Juice, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: This is the Pink Lady cultivar which was developed in Canada. For the Cripps cultivar developed in Australia, please see @1008.

Updated: 1 week ago

Cripps Pink

Cripps Pink

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Ornamental, Pie, Sauce

summary: This supermarket apple was developed in Australia from a planned cross of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious carried out in 1973.

Updated: 1 week ago

Pink Lady, Cripps Pink Cultivar

Pink Lady, Cripps Pink Cultivar

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Type: Dessert

summary: Top-quality apples from the "Cripps Pink" harvest are branded and sold as “Pink Lady.” These are not the Pink Lady (Canada) cultivar. Please see Cripps Pink for information on ...

Updated: 2 weeks ago

Sunrise Magic

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summary: see WA2 // 6556 Sunrise Magic // 9804 Pink Delight // 4969 Crimson Delight // 9803

Updated: 2 weeks ago