Pomiferous

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.

Pollination group:
A B C D E F G H
Harvest period:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Apples with harvest period 5

Grimes Golden

Grimes Golden

2

Type: Cider, Dessert, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is juicy, crisp and tender with a distinct tart flavour. Tends to be sweet. Look for a spicy character in the flavour with just a hint of coriander, this ...

Gros Bois

Gros Bois

2

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is greenish. Juicy, moderately sweet and somewhat tart. Amber juice. Flavourful. Browns on exposure to air.

Gunma Meigetsu

no apple  image
Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and dense, crunchy. Juicy and sweet with a slight sprightliness.

Hacnine

no apple  image
Type: Dessert

summary: Bred in Japan in the 1970s, this is a dessert apple which is well suited to cooler climate but tends to produce tart fruit.

Hall

no apple  image
Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is yellow, fine grained, tender and juicy. Very sweet, aromatic with distinct hints of vanilla.

Halstow Natural

no apple  image
Type: Cider, Dessert, Juice

origins: Tedburn St Mary, Devon

Harberts Reinette

Harberts Reinette

1

Type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained and crisp. Sweet-tart and somewhat spicy. Mild flavour.

Hardy Cumberland

Hardy Cumberland

1

Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse-grained and breaking. Juicy and sweet with mild flavour.

Heusgen’s Golden Reinette

no apple  image
Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, often with orange tints. Acidic when first picked by becomes sweet and aromatic in storage. Keeps three months in cold storage.

Hida

no apple  image
Type: Dessert

characteristics: sweet

Hokuto

no apple  image
Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. and firm. Juicy, sweet-sharp.

Holiday

Holiday

2

Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is white and crisp. Juicy and sweet to mildly sweet-sharp with hints of strawberry. The flavour resembles that of ((Jonathan)

Holly

Holly

1

Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Juicy, sweet, mild.

Holstein

Holstein

1

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Distinctly cream-coloured flesh, coarse-grained, juicy and noticeably aromatic, typically with pineapple flavours. Excellent sugar/acid balance. Produces ...

Horneburger Pfannkuchenapfel

Horneburger Pfannkuchenapfel

1

Type: Cooking, Culinary

summary: One of several varieties of apples that can grow to exceptionally large sizes, this German cultivar is used primarily for cooking and baking.

Herring’s Pippin

Herring’s Pippin

1

Type: Culinary

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm, crisp and coarse-grained. Juicy, spicy with faint flavour of anise.

Hubbardston

Hubbardston

1

Type: Cider, Dessert, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, hard, crisp and fine-grained. Juicy, sprightly and sweet, nutty, becoming more flavourful in storage.

Hudson's Golden Gem

Hudson's Golden Gem

1

Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is yellow, crisp, coarse-grained and breaking. Juicy and very sweet with a nutty, Bosc-pear flavour and, when fully ripe, it becomes soft and grainy ...

Hunt's Russet

no apple  image
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie

summary: This old heritage apple dates back to colonial America. Like most russets, it has a sweet, nutty, pear flavour that continues to develop as it matures in ...

Idagold

Idagold

1

Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is greenish, soft and fine-grained. Sweet, slightly acidic and mildly fruity.

Improved Keswick Codlin

no apple  image
Type: Cider, Eating

characteristics: sweet sharp.

Improved Lambrook Pippin

Improved Lambrook Pippin

1

Type: Culinary, Cider, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured. Sharp.

Imrus

no apple  image
Type: Dessert, Eating, Juice, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh cream-coloured, fine-grained is sweet-tart and fragrant.

Isle of Wight Pippin (North American)

Isle of Wight Pippin (North American)

1

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating

summary: Two varieties exist under the name Isle of Wight Pippin; one which originated in the Normandy region of France some time during the 1700s. The other arose in ...

Jarka

no apple  image
Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured. Juicy and sweet-sharp.

Jersey Red

Jersey Red

1

Type: Culinary

characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, very firm. Moderately sweet (Brix 11.7) but lacks flavour.

Cranberry Pippin

no apple  image
Type: Culinary, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is white. Tender. Moderately juicy and refreshingly sweet-tart.

Creston

no apple  image
Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: Similar in size and character to Jonagold , somewhat different in flavour. Excellent for eating out of hand and also makes great pies and apple sauce.

Crimson Gold

Crimson Gold

1

Type: Dessert, Juice, Pie

characteristics: Crisp and crunchy. Spicy and slightly tangy.

Cullasaga

no apple  image
Type: Culinary, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender. Juicy, lightly sweet-tart and aromatic.

Donate a cider?

©2016-2021 Pomiferous.com. All rights reserved