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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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Most popular apples on Pomiferous over 1 month

Jersey Mac

Jersey Mac

1

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: A McIntosh style apple. Greenish white flesh, soft, fine grained and juicy. Well balanced sweet and tart, fragrant. Flavour is at its peak for about a week ...

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 ...

Scilate

Scilate

1

Type: Dessert

summary: This New Zealand fresh-eating apple stands out among the sweetest varieties.

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Cox’s Orange Pippin

2

Type: Dessert

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

Lobo

Lobo

1

Type: Dessert, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is very white, often with faint red stain under the skin. Somewhat crisp, tender and with a fine grained. Juicy and sweet with a hint of strawberry. Tends ...

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 ...

Mollie’s Delicious

Mollie’s Delicious

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, soft. Juicy and very sweet, somewhat aromatic.

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 ...

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 ...

Early Harvest

Early Harvest

1

Type: Eating, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, crisp and juicy. Tangy and brisk.

Gravenstein

Gravenstein

1

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

summary: A good, sweet-tart eating apple if fully ripened on the tree. However, it is most commonly used green as a cooking apple for apple pies and sauce, but creates a ...

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