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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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King David

King David

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Type: Cider, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and juicy. Tough skin and coarse texture, though it softens in storage. Flavour is slightly sweet, slightly tart, spicy and ...

Northern Spy

Northern Spy

2

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.

Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious

2

Type: Cider, Dessert, Sauce

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 ...

Ecolette

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characteristics: The flesh is firm. Juicy, sharp and aromatic.

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Cox’s Orange Pippin

2

Type: Dessert

summary: Best eaten fresh. Considered one of the finest dessert apples.

Calville Blanc d’Hiver

Calville Blanc d’Hiver

1

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 ...

Yellow Transparent

Yellow Transparent

2

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Jelly, Pie, Sauce

summary: This pale yellow apple is one of the most popular early ripening varieties, initially good for use in the kitchen and later for fresh eating. It was already ...

Ashmead’s Kernel

Ashmead’s Kernel

2

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

summary: A sweet-tart, refreshing apple that also makes excellent apple sauce and provides tartness and sugars for cider blends.

MN 1711

MN 1711

1

Type: Dessert, Pie

summary: Though originally marked to be discarded, the Honeycrisp has become one of the Minnesota Research Center's most successful apple cultivar, representing the ...

Ambrosia

Ambrosia

1

Type: Dessert, Eating

summary: A sweet, juicy and flavourful eating apple, the Ambrosia stems from a chance seedling found in British Columbia's orchard country.

Elstar

Elstar

2

Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, somewhat crisp and very juicy. Sweet with well balanced acidity, though the tartness almost disappears with a couple of weeks of storage. ...

Belle de Boskoop

Belle de Boskoop

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

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 ...

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