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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
characteristics: Greenish white flesh is firm and juicy. Distinctly sweet-sharp. Highly aromatic.
Synonyms: Brown Spice, Burntisland Pippin, Rook's Nest, Spice Apple
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.
Aurora Golden Gala
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is cream in colour, crisp and breaking, firm and juicy with a fresh, nutty and sweet taste with a bit of tartness. Look for intense honey and tropical ...
Synonyms: Aurora Golden. Sometimes also Aurora, but this is also a synonym for the Cayuga Redstreak , ...