summary: Though this rather bitter apple is usually used for cider, the flesh is actually quite pleasant for eating raw after about eight weeks in storage.

summary: Can be used for cider or dessert, but in both cases, the apples need to mature for about eight weeks in storage.

origins: Grown from open-pollinated pips of Fuji in 1972. The pollen parent, however, was not known until 2005 when genetic research carried out in Japan indicated that ...

summary: Widely grown in south central Bulgaria in the 1950s.

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Crunchy, juicy, sweet-tart and aromatic.

origins: Developed from an open-pollinated seedling of Golden Delicious at the Gunma Horticultural Experiment Station in Gunma (Japan). Released in 1973.

summary: Akane is one of several regional synonyms attached to the Tohoku 3 cultivar. See Tohoku 3 .

characteristics: Flesh is pale cream in colour, firm and juicy with a bit of a tang with raspberry flavours. Tough skinned.

summary: A mutation of Tohoku 7 . More conic than the original, but also paler skin colour and slightly firmer flesh.

summary: A mutation of Tohoku 7 . Skin colour tends to be more pink than the original. Flesh tends to be firmer.

characteristics: The flesh is crisp, juicy. Sweet balanced with a slight tartness.

characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained, somewhat tender. Very juicy, refreshingly sweet-tart and mildly aromatic.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Fine-grained, crisp and very juicy. Sweet-tart and aromatic with quince flavours.

characteristics: Slight yellowish tinge. Crisp. Juicy, sweet-tart. Brix 14.0

characteristics: The flesh is white. Firm. Bittersweet.

characteristics: The flesh is white and coarse grained. Juicy and sweet, but with no noteworthy aroma or flavour.

characteristics: The flesh is acidic.

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 ...

characteristics: The flesh is white. Tender and juicy.

summary: Please see Alaska

characteristics: The flesh is cream colour, firm. Rich flavour.

characteristics: Red fleshed, quite dark. Very tart

summary: An all-red bud mutation of Gravenstein discovered in in Lübeck (Germany) in 1858.

summary: See Yellow Newtown Pippin

characteristics: Lime flavour. Sugar content as high as Brix 21.

summary: Please see Forfar Pippin .

identification: Small, conic.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender. Sweet

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.

summary: This Scottish cooking apple was developed in 1923 or earlier.