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Aargauer Jubiläum
Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Juice
summary: A Swiss apple from the Canton Aargau, along the German border. Used for cooking and cider.
Synonyms: Aargauer Jubilaums, Aargauer Jubiläumsapfel, Neuenhoffer, Jubilé d'Argovie, ...
Abas
Type: Dessert
characteristics: Crisp, juicy and moderately sweet. Mild.
Synonyms: Abys, Brown's Seedling, Bullock's Seedling, Cole's Seedling
Abrika
Type: Dessert, Eating
summary: Remarkably sweet, late summer apple with red-tinged flesh.
Acklam Russet
Type: Dessert
summary: Originated during the 1700s in Britain. Extensively russetted and excellent as an table apple.
Synonyms: Acklam’s Russet, Aclam Russet, Aclam’s Russet, Aclemy Russet, Wheeler’s ...
Acme
Type: Dessert
summary: A British eating apple that incorporates all the best traits of Cox's Orange Pippin and Worcester Pearmain.
Adersleber Calville
Type: Dessert, Eating
summary: Developed in the 1840s, this calville style apple is juicy and sweet with just a touch of refreshing tang.
Synonyms: Adersleber, Adersleber Kalvill, Lichthardsapfel, Calville d Adersleben
African Red
Type: Dessert, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is light cream colour, fine grained and firm.. Juicy, sweet with very low acidity. up to six months in cold storage with no appreciable loss of ...
Synonyms: Marketed as African Carmine.
Agnes
Type:
characteristics: The flesh is white with light pink stains. Coarse grained.
Synonyms: B:1377
Alant
Type: Culinary, Dessert, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine grained. Juicy, sweet with aromas of cinnamon and elfdock (alant in German, aunée in French) from which comes the name of the ...
Synonyms: Aunée, Carrée d'Automne, Edler Prinzessin, Franche-Noble, Fransche Kron., ...
Alderman
Type: Culinary
summary: This Scottish cooking apple was developed in 1923 or earlier.
Alexis
Alice
Type: Dessert
summary: Developed in Sweden during the mid-1900s as part of a programme to find winter hardy cultivars with long shelf life.
Altländer Klunsterapfel
Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and firm. Sweet and verging on sharp, but very mild flavour.
Synonyms: Altlander Klunsterapfel, Klunster
Altländer Rosenapfel
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is firm, coarse-grained, chewy with a tart, vinous flavour.
Synonyms: Altlander Rosenapfel
Amanda
Type: Cider
origins: Specifically bred by Liz Copas and Ray Williams at the Long Ashton Research Station in Somerset (U.K.) to provide England's commercial cider industry with a ...
Amer Doux d'Hiver
Type:
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish and firm. Juicy and bitter. The must can be pale or deeply coloured.
Synonyms: Amer Doux, Gros Amer Doux Blanc
Ameslon
Ananas Berzenicki
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Jelly, Juice
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, firm. Juicy with a good, sweet-tart balance with a wine flavour.
Synonyms: Berzininky ananasas, Berzininky Pineapple, Hrebnicki’s Rennet Apple, Reneta ...
Antonovka
Type: Culinary, Cider, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse-grained and tender. Moderately juicy, slightly brisk and quite aromatic. Allow the fruit to mature to a yellow colour for ...
Synonyms: Antenovka, Antoni, Antonovca, Antonovka obiknovennaia, Antonovka obyknovennaya, ...
Antonovka Kamenichka
Type: Culinary, Cider
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained and dense. Quite tart.
Synonyms: Anto
brix: 13
sg: 1.0525
Api
Type: Cider, Eating, Juice
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp and fine-grained. Very juicy, very sweet, slightly tart and highly aromatic.
Synonyms: Almindelig, American Lady, Apia, Appia, Cardinal, Christmas Apple, Lady, Lady ...
Api Noir
Type: Eating
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine?grained and soft. Sweet and aromatic. Becomes mealy very quickly in storage.
Synonyms: de Caluau, Calvau Noir, pommier ˆ fruit noir Api chernoe, Apis Noir, Black Lady ...
Apollo
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is white, moderately fine-grained and firm. Juicy and sweet-tart and aromatic.
Arends
Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, medium-grained, crisp and firm. Juicy, sweet-tart, winey and strawberry flavours.
Synonyms: Marketed as Paulared and Paula Red. Often called Early Mac.
Aromatic Russet
Type: Dessert
summary: A sweet and tangy dessert apple of English origin from the early 1800s.
Aromatic Russet (Scott)
Type: Dessert
summary: Promoted by J. Scott Nursery of Somerset during the 1900s, but likely the same apple as one described by British pomologist George Lindley in 1831. Please see ...
Arthur Turner
Type: Cooking, Culinary, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is pale cream in colour and coarse-grained. Dry and sharp.
Synonyms: Turner's Prolific
Arthur W. Barnes
Type: Cooking, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine?grained and crisp. Very juicy and tart.
Synonyms: A.W. Barnes
Ashdown Seedling
Type: Dessert
summary: A seedling of the McIntosh, this apple ripens early and comes with juicy, sweet, strawberry flavours.
Astillisch
Type:
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured and fine grained. Juicy and sharp.