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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.
Apples with the use of culinary
Undine
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summary: Typical of its Jonathan heritage, this varietal produces juicy and sweet fruit and is well suited to hobby orchards and U-pick operations.
Vandevere
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp to the point of being hard. Juicy, sprightly and sweet.
Victoria Limbertwig
summary: Ranked as one of the best fresh-eating Limbertwig apples, this Tennessee variety is also great for baking and ciders.
Viking
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summary: A big and bold maroon apple that's both crisp and juicy with a sweet-tart flavour that stands up to fresh eating as well as baking.
Vitalstar
summary: Redfleshed apple, sweet-sharp
WA 2
summary: Developed at Washington State University, this multi-purpose, compact apple apple is crisp, sweet-tart and has a long storage life.
Wagener
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-rained and tender. Very juicy, brisk, sweet and aromatic. Tastes best if it has been hit by a frost.
Walker Pippin
summary: This heritage apple was grown in the southeastern United States through the 1800s but faded away in the early1900s. It was restored in the late 1900s. Very ...
Walker Yellow
summary: Grown in the southeastern United States during the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. Restored as a heritage apple in the early 2000s. Very similar and ...
Warner’s King
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summary: The cooking apple from Britain is another in a class of oversize varieties grown for market and farm gate sales.
Warrier
origins: Originated in Dorset (U.K.) and listed in the 1947 Royal Horticultural Society Journal . Widespread in central Dorset. Thought to have disappeared, but it was ...
Webster
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, coarse grained and soft., Sharp and fruity.
Wehntaler Hagapfel
summary: A highly regarded, Swiss fresh-eating apple but also favoured for single-varietal cider.
Wellington
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characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and moderately firm. Juicy, sweet, sprightly and very aromatic.
Welschisner
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm. Acid.
Western Beauty
summary: Rated as an excellent late-summer, fresh-eating apple.
Westland
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured with red stains next to the skin. Does not brown when exposed to the air.
Wheeler’s Golden Russet
summary: A mutation of Golden Russet, American found in the orchard of Sidney Wheeler near Belchertown, Massachusetts (U.S.A.) in the 1970s. Medium size, round conic, somewhat flattened, ...
Whetstone
summary: Very large fruit. Works best for culinary purposes. A good choice for farm-market and farm-gate sales.
White Paradise
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp. Juicy and sweet.
White Paradise
origins: Marketed by Forest Nursery in Fairview, Kentucky (U.S.A.) in 1870.
White Transparent
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summary: Please see Yellow Transparent
Wickson Crab
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summary: Favoured for making crabapple jelly, partly because of a high pectin content. Excellent as a pollinator for other apples since it blossoms early, over a period ...
Winter Banana
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characteristics: Cream coloured flesh is coarse-grained, crisp and melting. Juicy, sweet, slightly tart and very fragrant with noticeable banana aroma. In his book "Systematic ...
Winter Colman
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, firm and crisp. Acidic though it mellows somewhat in storage. Very firm/hard.
Winter Majetin
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse-grained, firm and crisp. Brisk.
Winter Pearmain
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summary: A highly regarded cooking and eating British heritage apple grown since the the Middle Ages. Keeps its shape when cooked.
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