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Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Pomiferous
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Aagt
Type: Dessert
summary: A favoured eating apple that originated in Holland sometime during the 1700s. Also known as Friandise.
Synonyms: Aagt d’Angleterre, Aagt de Hollande, Leckerbissen, Friande, Friandise, Fyne ...
Abbondanza
Type: Cooking, Dessert
summary: Originating in Italy, this large, fresh-eating apple offers a refreshing sweet-tart flavour.
Synonyms: Belfort
brix: 11.9
sg: 1.0479
Admiral
Type: Dessert, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish, coarse grained, soft. Sweet and aromatic.
Synonyms: Gloria, Togo of Upton
Ahrista
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is slightly yellowish. Very juicy. Sweet-tart.
Airlie Red Flesh
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Jelly, Pie, Sauce
summary: A red-fleshed apple found as a chance seedling in Oregon State. See also Mountain Rose .
Synonyms: Aerlie, Airlie, Airlie's Red Flesh, Hidden Rose
Aïvaniya
Type: Dessert
summary: Widely grown in south central Bulgaria in the 1950s.
Synonyms: Aivanna, Aiviana, Ayvaniya,
Aiwa
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Crunchy, juicy, sweet-tart and aromatic.
Akita Gold
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Fine-grained, crisp and very juicy. Sweet-tart and aromatic with hints of quince flavours.
brix: 14
sg: 1.0568
Alastair Cannon-White
Type: Culinary
characteristics: The flesh is cream colour, firm. Rich flavour.
Synonyms: Alastair Canon, Alastair Cannon, White Lindel
Aldenham Blenheim
Type:
summary: A mutation of Blenheim Orange found by Edwin Beckett in the gardens at Aldenham House in Hertfordshire (U.K.) in 1929. Slightly more coloured than Blenheim Orange.
Alexander
Type: Culinary, Eating, Sauce
characteristics: Flesh is white with a faint tinge of yellow. Coarse texture. Juicy and sweet with winey flavours.. Sweet when eaten fresh, otherwise quite sharp.
Synonyms: Albertin, Alexander the First, Aport, Calville Alexandre, Emperor Alexander, ...
Alfriston
Type: Culinary, Eating, Jelly, Sauce
summary: No longer widely grown, but lives on as a popular garden variety in Britain. Great for apple jelly.
Synonyms: Alfreston, Alfristan, Freen Grove, Green Goose, Lord Gwydyr's Pippin, Lord ...
Allen’s Everlasting
Type: Dessert, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is creamy yellow, fine-grained, tender and crisp. It tends to be a bit on the dry side, but with good, sweet-sharp flavour. Let it hang as long as ...
Synonyms: Allen Everlasting, Harvey’s Everlasting
Allington Pippin
Type:
characteristics: Flesh is off-white, fine grained. Juicy with a rich, sweet-tart flavour, somewhat reminiscent of pineapple. The flavour tends to be somewhat harsh at harvest ...
Synonyms: Allington, Allington Peppin, Brown’s South Lincoln Beauty, South Lincoln ...
Almata
Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Sauce
summary: This red-fleshed apple makes great apple sauce, crabapple jelly and has also caught the attention of cider makers.
Synonyms: Alma Ata
Alnarps Favorit
Type: Cooking, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is soft and juicy. Sweet-tart. Flavour profile is similar to McIntosh.
Synonyms: Alnarp, Alnarp's Favorite, Alnarp's Favourite, Alnarps Favourite, Favorit, ...
Alpha 68
Type: Cooking, Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and tender. Juicy, sharp, with a good flavour.
Synonyms: Alfa 68
Altländer Fettapfel
Type: Culinary, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Intense flavour.
Synonyms: Altlander Fettapfel
Altländer Pfannkuchenapfel
Type: Cooking, Culinary, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured and crisp. Sharp and fruity.
Synonyms: Altlander, Altlander pfannkuchenapfel, Altländer, Echter Altländer ...
Alton
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is white, often with a red stain under the skin. Very similar to the Crimson Beauty in flavour and texture.
Amanishiki
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is pale green and very sweet, but lacking flavour.
Ambrosia
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.
Synonyms: Mennell’s Ambrosia
Amer Doux Vert
Type: Cider
characteristics: The flesh is light tan coloured, fine grained, tender and sweet.
Ananas Reinette
Type: Dessert, Juice, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine grained, crisp. Sweet-sharp. Its signature pineapple flavour becomes more pronounced in storage. Rich in Vitamin C.
Synonyms: Ananas, Ananas Renette, Pineapple Reinette, Goldapfel, Kindbetter. Note that the ...
Ananas Rouge
Type: Dessert, Eating, Juice, Pie
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish white, stained pink under the skin. Fine grained, firm. Sweet, lightly tart with a pronounced pineapple flavour which matures to strawberry ...
Synonyms: Ananas, Red Pineapple, Roter Ananasapfel. Note that the Ananas Reinette and ...
Angyal Dezso
Type: Dessert
summary: This Hungarian cultivar from the 1900s has a sweet-tart juice and nutty flavour.
Synonyms: Angyal Dezs
Anis Rosalie
Type: Culinary
summary: Regarded as the queen of all cooking apples in its native Charentes region of France.
Synonyms: Anis rose, Azeroly anisé, Azeroly, Mazoréli
Annurca
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is white. Firm and crunchy. Sweet and juicy.
Synonyms: Anurka, Melannurca campana
Api Étoilé
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine grained, crunchy and sweet-tart. Aromatic.
Synonyms: Star Apple, Sternapfel, Pentagone, Pentagonale, Longue queue. Sometimes also ...
Ard Cairn Russet
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is cream-yellow, often with faint reddish stains around the core. Dry, sweet and firm with a flavour reminiscent of banana. Almost no acidity.
Synonyms: Almey