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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.

Pollination group:
A B C D E F G H
Harvest period:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Index of apples starting with A

Alderstone Pippin

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Type: Dessert

summary: A British eating apple from the 1800s, likely no longer grown.

Alderton

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Type: Culinary

summary: Judged to be of poor quality and likely no longer grown.

Aldwick Beauty

Aldwick Beauty

2

Type: Culinary, Dessert

characteristics: Sweet, dry

Alexander

Alexander

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Sauce

summary: This apple can grow huge and it can be grown from seed with reasonable chance that it will produce a similar tree.

Alexander Dean

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Type:

summary: Harold Taylor appraised it as "A tall, round, regular apple, pale yellowish-green in colour, with russet markings on the base. Some short in russeted cavity. ...

Alexandra

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Type: Dessert

summary: Highly regarded as a dessert apple in Victorian England.

Alexis

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Type: Dessert

summary: A highly coloured mutation of McIntosh from Yugoslavia.

Alexis Crab

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Type: Cider, Jelly

characteristics: Sweet.

Alfred Jolibois

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Type: Dessert

summary: Please see Jolibois

Alfriston

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Type: Culinary, Eating, Jelly, Sauce

summary: No longer widely grown, but lives on as a popular garden variety in Britain. Great for apple jelly.

Algarkirk Beauty

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Type: Dessert

characteristics: Flesh is creamy yellowish, tender and sweet. Juicy and pleasantly aromatic.

Alice

Alice

2

Type: Dessert

summary: Developed in Sweden during the mid-1900s as part of a programme to find winter hardy cultivars with long shelf life.

Alka

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Type: Dessert

origins: Seedling of Hercogiene Elza at the Lithuanian Institute of Horticulture

Alkmene

Alkmene

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie

summary: Resembles Cox's Orange Pippin in shape, colour and flavour. Excellent when eaten out of hand, but also a remarkable apple for pies and turn-overs.

All Doer

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Type: Cooking, Cider

summary: Ideal for making blended cider, the British apple also makes a sauce with a sweet honey-flavoured finish.

All Red

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Type:

summary: A highly coloured mutation of Jonathan found near Allentown Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) in 1937. Crisp, coarse-grained and juicy.

Allen’s Everlasting

Allen’s Everlasting

2

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 ...

Allington Pippin

Allington Pippin

2

Type: Culinary, Dessert

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 ...

Allington Pippin Sport

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Type:

summary: This is a mutation of Allington Pippin . Red wash with darker stripes.

Allred Jonathan

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Type: Dessert

summary: A mutation of Jonathan found in 1937 in Allentown, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.)

Allspice

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Type: Dessert

summary: not available

Allum

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Type: Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Juicy and tender with a tart finish.

Alma Pippin

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Type: Dessert

summary: Described by Archibald Farquharson Barron in the 1888 issue of "British Apples Illustrated" as "large, conical, even, green-flushed and covered with large ...

Alma Sweet

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Type: Culinary, Sauce

summary: The Alma Sweet is excellent for use in apple sauce, either on its own or blended with more flavourful apples.

Almeda

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Type: Culinary

summary: An early-ripening mutation of Rhode Island Greening, Found in 1927 and introduced commercially in 1939 by J. W. Savely in Sumner County, Tennessee (U.S.A.). ...

Almey

Almey

2

Type: Ornamental

summary: An ornamental crabapple loaded with stunning pink flowers.

Alnarp 2

Alnarp 2

1

Type:

summary: Rootstock from Alnarp, Sweden.

Alnarps Favorit

Alnarps Favorit

2

Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is soft and juicy. Sweet-tart. Flavour profile is similar to McIntosh.

Alpha 68

Alpha 68

1

Type: Cooking, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and tender. Juicy, sharp, with a good flavour.

Alpigala

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Type: Dessert

summary: A whole tree mutation of Kidd's D-8 , colours early, dark red overcolour with prominent dark striping. Identified in 2010 by T. Clos at International Fruit Obtention, ...

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