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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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Belle de Boskoop
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summary: A favoured cooking apple, holding its shape and texture well for pies, crumbles and crisps. In most areas where this variety is grown, it is encountered as a ...
Golden Delicious
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summary: A very sweet and somewhat spicy apple found growing wild in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S.A., in the early 1900s. Now one of the best known and ...
Ambrosia
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summary: A sweet, juicy and flavourful eating apple, the Ambrosia stems from a chance seedling found in British Columbia's orchard country.
Jonagold
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characteristics: The flesh is creamy yellow, medium-grained, crisp and crunchy. Juicy with a tart-sweet, honeyed taste. The flesh turns brown as it oxidizes, albeit slowly.
Granny Smith
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and coarse-grained. The apple is crisp sweet-sharp and refreshing.
Cox’s Orange Pippin
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summary: Best eaten fresh. Considered one of the finest dessert apples.
Ashmead’s Kernel
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summary: A sweet-tart, refreshing apple that also makes excellent apple sauce and provides tartness and sugars for cider blends.
Redfield
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summary: Tastes great in apple jellies and pies. Can been eaten fresh, though on the tart side.
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