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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

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 ...

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 ...

Grantonian

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Type: Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse?grained and soft, somewhat mealy.

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 ...

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Cox’s Orange Pippin

2

Type: Dessert

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

Red Delicious

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Type: Dessert

summary: Originally known as Hawkeye , this apple from midwestern U.S.A. has reigned for almost a century as the most recognizable variety in terms of both shape and ...

Nova Easygro

Nova Easygro

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie

characteristics: Flesh is white, medium grain, firm and crisp. Somewhat juicy and moderately sweet. Somewhat tart when first picked but mellows with storage.

Jonagold

Jonagold

2

Type: Cider, Dessert, Pie

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.

James Grieve

James Grieve

1

Type: Cider, Eating, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is creamy-white, fine-grained and soft when ripe, much like that of a firm Anjou pear. It tends to be on the sharp side, but it will sweeten and ...

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. ...

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 ...

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