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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.
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Porter
Type: Canning, Cooking, Eating, Jelly
summary: An excellent American cooking apple discovered as a chance seedling in the early 1800s.
Synonyms: Jennings, Yellow Summer Pearmain
Pumpkin Sweet
Type: Canning
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, medium-grained, firm and tender. Juicy, very sweet and slightly tart. Mild flavour.
Synonyms: Lyman's Pumpkin Sweet, Pound Sweet, Pound Sweeting, Pumpkin Sweeting, Rhode ...
Robin
Type: Canning, Cider, Jelly
characteristics: The flesh is greenish and very firm. Juicy, slightly tart and astringent. Keeps about a month in cold storage.
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Benham
Type: Canning, Eating, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, fine grained and juicy. Sweet and nutty when fully ripened. Fruit is slow to turn brown once cut open.
Synonyms: Benum, Brown, Claiborne, Nat Ewing, Yearry
Dolgo
Type: Canning, Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is yellow and crisp. Juicy, sweet-sharp, slightly bitter and with flavours of pineapples and strawberries. The skin colour tends to stain into the ...
Synonyms: Malus baccata ‘Dolgo”
Olga Crab
Type: Canning, Jelly, Ornamental, Sauce
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish with a red stain around the core. Crisp and juicy. Tart.
Porter
Type: Canning, Cooking, Eating, Jelly
summary: An excellent American cooking apple discovered as a chance seedling in the early 1800s.
Synonyms: Jennings, Yellow Summer Pearmain
Pumpkin Sweet
Type: Canning
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, medium-grained, firm and tender. Juicy, very sweet and slightly tart. Mild flavour.
Synonyms: Lyman's Pumpkin Sweet, Pound Sweet, Pound Sweeting, Pumpkin Sweeting, Rhode ...
Ralph Shay
Type: Canning, Jelly, Ornamental, Pollinization
summary: A flowering ornamental crabapple that produces glossy red, edible fruit.
Robin
Type: Canning, Cider, Jelly
characteristics: The flesh is greenish and very firm. Juicy, slightly tart and astringent. Keeps about a month in cold storage.