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Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.

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 week

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 ...

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Cox’s Orange Pippin

2

Type: Dessert

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Dorsett Golden

Dorsett Golden

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Medium firm, crisp. Mildly sweet.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kandil Sinap

Kandil Sinap

2

Type: Dessert, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, fine-grained, crisp and juicy. Sweet, aromatic, sprightly with a vinous flavour. Bruises easily.

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