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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish and firm. Juicy and bitter. The must can be pale or deeply coloured.
characteristics: The flesh is light tan coloured, fine grained, tender and sweet.
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characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy and sweet.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Bitter.
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summary: This bittersweet cider apple orginated in the 1800s in France and is valued for blending when additional bitterness is called for in hard cider.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish which is most pronounced close to the skin. Very bitter with no discernible aroma.
summary: A yellow, round, bittersweet cider apple from the Côtes-d'Armor region of Brittany (France).
origins: Grown in the Finistère region of Brittany (France).
summary: A bittersweet cider apple from northwestern France.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and dense. Somewhat coarse-grained and chewy, sweet and aromatic with a vinous flavour.
characteristics: The fruit is not intended for consumption.
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origins: Native to the Great Lakes region of North America.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow. Tender and juicy. Sweet with a roasted flavour.
characteristics: The flesh is tan coloured, coarse-grained, soft. Dry and acidic.
summary: This is just one of the 96 varieties of limbertwig apples which arose out of the South Appalachian Mountain region of south-eastern North America. Roughly half ...
summary: This cultivar from eastern North America may have been lost.
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summary: This is among the better summer fresh-eating apples.
summary: Likely a lost cultivar. Used as a sharp component in cider making during the 1800s.
summary: Listed in A.F. Barron's 1883 "British Apples" but otherwise unknown. Likely a lost apple. May also be Arnold's Worthorpe Prolific which seems to have ...
summary: An ornamental crab apple tree with deep pink flowers and abundant, reddish purple fruit which grows to about 1.2 centimetre in diameter and is not considered to ...
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