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Bramley’s Seedling
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse-grained and firm. Juicy and tart with a distinct lemony apple flavour.
Synonyms: Bramley, Triomphe de Kiel
Calville Blanc d’Hiver
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, fine-grained, juicy, sweet and aromatic. Flavour is distinctively reminiscent of bananas.
Synonyms: Blanche de Zurich, Blandureau d'Auvergne, Bonnet Carrée, Calville Blanc, ...
Fall Pippin
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is white with tinges of yellow. Fine grained. tender and juicy. Aromatic and slightly brisk. Browns quickly when exposed to air.
Synonyms: American Fall, American Fall Pippin, Autumn Pippin, Cat Head, Cobbet’s Fall, ...
Norfolk Beefing
Type: culinary
Summary: Norfolk Beefing is an old English apple variety used primarily for cooking and drying.
Synonyms: Beaufin Millemont, Cat’s Head, Cat’s Head Beaufin, Catshead, Catshead ...
Peasgood’s Nonsuch
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse-grained, tender. Juicy, sweet and slightly tart.
Synonyms: Peasgood Nonesuch, Peasgoods Goldrenette
Warner’s King
Type: culinary
Summary: The cooking apple from Britain is another in a class of oversize varieties grown for market and farm gate sales.
Synonyms: Barker’s Seedling, D. T. Fisch, D. T. Fish, David T. Fish, Drumlanrig Castle, ...
Wolf River
Type: culinary
Summary: This large baking apple grows to between 300 and 450 grams.
Alexander
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Flesh is white with a faint tinge of yellow. Coarse texture. Juicy and sweet with winey flavours.. Sweet when eaten fresh, otherwise quite sharp.
Synonyms: Albertin, Alexander the First, Aport, Calville Alexandre, Emperor Alexander, ...
Yellow Bellflower
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained and firm. Juicy and aromatic. Sweet-sharp. Acidity is considered sprightly in a ripe apple but distinctly tart if not fully ...
Synonyms: Bell Flower, Belle Flavoise, Bellflower, Bishop's Pippin, Bishop's Pippin of ...
Gloria Mundi
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Flesh is creamy white with tinges of green just under the skin. Coarse-grained, soft and dry. Distinctly tart when eaten fresh but becomes quite sweet with cook ...
Synonyms: American Gloria Mundi, American Mammoth, Baltimore, Baltimore Monstrous Pippin, ...
Dumelow's Seedling
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy and very sharp. Somewhat aromatic.
Synonyms: Duke of Wellington, Dumbelow’s Seedling, Dumeller’s Crab, Dumeller’s ...
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A.D.W. Atkins
Type: culinary
Summary: A British cooking apple, also used for making cider.
Aargauer Herrenapfel
Type: culinary
Summary: Originating in the Swiss Canton of Aargau, this apple dates back to the 1700s.
Synonyms: Herrenapfel (the Reinette de Champagne is also known by this synonym), ...
Aargauer Jägerapfel
Type: culinary
Summary: Found as a wild seedling in Switzerland prior to 1800.
Synonyms: Sometimes referred to as the Rheinischen Winterrambur. Also known as Kuttiger ...
Aargauer Jubiläum
Type: culinary
Summary: A Swiss apple from the Canton Aargau, along the German border. Used for cooking and cider.
Synonyms: Aargauer Jubilaums, Aargauer Jubiläumsapfel, Neuenhoffer, Jubilé d'Argovie, ...
Aargauer Quittenapfel
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Soft, very acidic.
Aargauer Rosen
Type: culinary
Summary: Possibly a Roman variety with origins in the western Pyrenees.
Synonyms: Baschi, Baschiapfel, Bornapfel, Weissrosen, San Sebastian, Weissrosen, ...
Abbé Soyer
Type: culinary
Origins: Named in honour of the Abbé Soyer (1838-1902) who ultimately became Bishop
Äckerli
Type: dessert
Summary: Originating in Switzerland, this fresh-eating apple is also used for baking and cider.
Synonyms: Äckerliapfel, Aeckerliapfel
Adam's Apple
Type: culinary
Summary: See White Paradise
Ahern Beauty
Type: culinary
Origins: Grown in northern Ireland since the late 1700.
Synonyms: Aherne Beauty, Mere de Ménage
Aimée Rabin
Type: culinary
Alant
Type: dessert
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 varie ...
Synonyms: Aunée, Carrée d'Automne, Edler Prinzessin, Franche-Noble, Fransche Kron., ...
Alaska Pink
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is stained pink to light red. Juicy and tart.
Alastair Cannon-White
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is cream colour, firm. Rich flavour.
Synonyms: Alastair Canon, Alastair Cannon, White Lindel
Alatau
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Red fleshed, quite dark. Very tart
Albury Park Nonsuch
Type: culinary
Summary: A good dual purpose apple, likely grown Holland during the mid-1700s.
Synonyms: Albury Nonsuch, Dutch Mignon, Dutch Mignonne, Forfar
Aldenham Purple
Type: culinary
Summary: A redfleshed apple that can be used for both culinary and decorative purposes.
Synonyms: Aldenham Crabapple, Purple Crab, Rosebloom Crab
Alderman
Type: culinary
Summary: This Scottish cooking apple was developed in 1923 or earlier.
Alderton
Type: culinary
Summary: Judged to be of poor quality and likely no longer grown.
Alexander
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Flesh is white with a faint tinge of yellow. Coarse texture. Juicy and sweet with winey flavours.. Sweet when eaten fresh, otherwise quite sharp.
Synonyms: Albertin, Alexander the First, Aport, Calville Alexandre, Emperor Alexander, ...
Alfriston
Type: culinary
Summary: No longer widely grown, but lives on as a popular garden variety in Britain. Great for apple jelly.
Synonyms: Alfreston, Alfristan, Freen Grove, Green Goose, Lord Gwydyr's Pippin, Lord ...
Alma Sweet
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Very sweet, dry some years and very juicy other years. Flavours tend to be somewhat bland.
Altgeld's Küchenapfel
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained. Crunchy. Juicy and sweet with vinous flavours.
Altländer Fettapfel
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Intense flavour.
Synonyms: Altlander Fettapfel
Amassia
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and tender and juicy. Sweet and somewhat tart when first harvest, but becomes more sweet and aromatic without the tartness in s ...
Synonyms: Amasia, Amassia Muskett, Amasya, Apple of Amasya, Amasya Misket, Musk Apple, ...
American Grindling
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is tan coloured, coarse-grained, soft. Dry and acidic.
American Wothorpe Prolific
Type: culinary
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 ...
Synonyms: American Worthorpe Prolific, Worthorpe Prolific, Wothorpe Prolific
Amphlett’s Favourite
Type: culinary
Summary: A cooking apple that originated in Herfordshire during the 1800s. Possibly a lost cultivar.