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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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Wodarz

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Type: Culinary, Dessert

summary: Created in the north-central heartland of the United States during the mid-1900s, this large, yellowish apple resembles the Golden Delicious in flavours, ...

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 ...

Marie Doudou

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Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy, brisky and fruity. Keeps three months in cold storage.

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 ...

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 ...

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Cox’s Orange Pippin

2

Type: Dessert

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

Wickson Crab

Wickson Crab

2

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

summary: Favoured for making crabapple jelly, partly because of a high pectin content. Excellent as a pollinator for other apples since it blossoms early, over a period ...

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.

Granny Smith

Granny Smith

2

Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and coarse-grained. The apple is crisp sweet-sharp and refreshing.

Flower of Kent

Flower of Kent

1

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and somewhat mealy. Very juicy and sweet, lightly acidic.

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.

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