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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.
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 ...
summary: Can be kept for long commercial storage which makes them usable for the market and supermarket trade.
characteristics: The flesh is white. Tender, juicy and flavourful.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, crisp and juicy. Sweet and sprightly.
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summary: This Hungarian cultivar from the 1900s has a sweet-tart juice and nutty flavour.
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characteristics: The flesh is tinged pale green. Juicy and sweet-tart.
characteristics: The flesh is firm. Somewhat dry. Distinct licorice flavour, notably so when grown in clay based soils. The flesh oxidizes very quickly and becomes quite brown ...
summary: Regarded as the queen of all cooking apples in its native Charentes region of France.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Juicy, very sweet, with a distinct aniseed aroma, especially when grown in clay based soil.
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characteristics: The flesh is white and tender. Fine-grained. Very juicy, sweet, somewhat acidic and with a distinct aniseed flavour.
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characteristics: The flesh is lightly greenish. Fine-grained. Juicy and lightly sweet-tart
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summary: Highly showy crabapple tree, but needs to be picked before winter.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream white, firm, juicy. The flavour is sweet and sprightly when the fruit is allowed to ripen on the tree. Requires careful monitoring since it ...
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characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp and moderately juicy. Slightly acidic with an aniseed flavour.
summary: Annat Scarlet is widely considered to be the same apple as the Devonshire Quarrenden and the name is actually suggested as a synonym for the Quarrenden. However, the two have ...
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characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse-grained and dense. Somewhat dry and quite sharp. When cut open, there is a strong, sweet aroma.
summary: Please see Golden Delicious Golden Delicious for details. Also Mullins Yellow ( Mullins' Yellow Seedling ) and Early golden ( Early Golden )
summary: A fresh eating apple grown in south-central England a century-and-a-half ago. The last remaining tree is reported still standing.
summary: An early-summer fresh-eating apple developed in South Dakota during the early 1900s. Hardy and bears fruit within two years of being planted.
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summary: Recommended for making a single varietal dry cider. One of several varieties used for the bitter-sweet component of Brittany-style apple cider.
characteristics: Moderately sweet and somewhat acidic. Spiced flavour.
summary: Weighing as much as a 400-page hardcover book, this apple shines as a cooking apple. It is also used for hardy root stock and can be grown from seeds.
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