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.
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.
Identification: Medium tending to large. Round, sometimes oblong. The skin base colour is yellow, often with a pale pink or brownish blush on the sun exposed face. Russet lenticels and veins. The eye is medium size and closed, set in a medium deep and wide, slightly ribbed basin. The stem is very short and set in a medium deep and wide basin.
Characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy and very sweet.
Uses: Dessert apple, also used for cider.
Origins: Sligo Ireland. described in 1951
Cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Tip bearer.
Ploidism: Self sterile. Group F Day 21
Cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
Harvest: In the latter half of the third period. Problems:
Harvest period: 3
Type(s): Cider, Dessert
Pollination group: F
Pollination day: 21