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Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.

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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Apples with the use of culinary

Ballerina Charlotte

Ballerina Charlotte

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: Please see Hercules

Baltimore

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Type: Culinary

summary: Synonym for Mère de Ménage

Barchard’s Seedling

Barchard’s Seedling

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Sweet and pleasantly tart.

Barnack Beauty

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is yellow with some light reddish staining. Crunchy. Juicy and sweet-sharp, refreshing.

Bastian Orange Crab

Bastian Orange Crab

2

Type: Culinary, Jelly, Pollinization

summary: Grown from a chance seedling, this crabapple has orange flesh and is sometimes listed as a red-flesh varietal.

Battleford

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie

summary: A good baking apple, great for pies, also used as a fresh-eating apple. First grown in Saskatchewan (Canada).

Baumann's Reinette

Baumann's Reinette

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert

summary: Rated by some as a moderately good tasting dessert apple, though extraordinarily handsome.

Beauty of Kent

Beauty of Kent

1

Type: Culinary, Pie, Sauce

summary: A large, attractive, sharp-flavoured cooking apple, favoured for apple sauce. In pies and tarts, the cooked slices turn lemon yellow.

Bedfordshire Foundling

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Type: Culinary

summary: A British cooking apple found growing in the late 1800s in the Bedfordshire area.

Bedwyn Beauty

Bedwyn Beauty

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Jelly, Sauce

summary: When first harvested, this is at best a cooking apple with a mild flavour, smooth texture and a tendency to hold its shape. After several weeks in storage, it ...

Beeriapfel

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: At one time, this Swiss apple was primarily considered a highly-rated cider apple, but now it is also appreciated as a cooking and fresh-eating apple.

Belle de Boskoop

Belle de Boskoop

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: A favoured cooking apple, holding its shape and texture well for pies, crumbles and crisps. In most areas where this variety is grown, it is encountered as a ...

Belle de Tours

Belle de Tours

1

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Pie

summary: This culinary apple was grown through the Loire Valley of France, but has become alarmingly scarce.

Belle Fille Double

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie

summary: Please see Yellow Bellflower

Belle Fille Normande

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: A sweet-sharp French cider apple but also used for making a fragrant, lemon yellow sauce and it keeps its shape for making pies and tarts.

Belle Flavoise

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Type: Culinary, Juice, Sauce

summary: An early cooking apple good for sauces and also makes a brisk juice.

Belle Fleur d’Argonne

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Type: Culinary

origins: Champagne-Ardenne (France)

Belle-Fleur de France

Belle-Fleur de France

1

Type: Cooking, Culinary

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured with some green stains, firm. Mild flavour. Sweet and slightly tart.

Bellefleur de Brabant

Bellefleur de Brabant

1

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and juicy. Sweet, sprightly and aromatic.

Belmac

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: A Mac-style apple but more hardy and disease resistant.

Belvedere House

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Pollinization, Sauce

characteristics: Red flesh.

Bénédictin

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Type: Culinary, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is white when first picked, becoming yellowish in storage. Fine-grained, firm. Juicy, sweet and aromatic.

Benham

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Type: Culinary

origins: Believed to have originated as an open-pollinated seedling of Baldwin . Raised by F.M. Benham of Petosky in Michigan.

Berford Red

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Type: Culinary

summary: This listing is for the Berford Red apple. Please see RF: Burford Red Flesh for the red- fleshed variety (Burford).

Berner Rosenapfel

Berner Rosenapfel

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is greenish with some red stains under the skin, fine grained. Very juicy, very sweet, refreshingly tart with a spicy flavour. Turns brown with ...

Bernhardzeller

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert

summary: Declined in popularity and grown primarily in heritage orchards.

Best Ever

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Type: Culinary, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, noticeably firm. Spicedy flavours.

Bethel

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert

summary: A handsome and flavourful, multi-purpose apple from the late 1700s, similar to the Stone and Blue Pearmain apples. Very hardy.

Bishop’s Pippin

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Type: Culinary

summary: Please see Yellow Bellflower

Black Gilliflower

Black Gilliflower

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Jelly, Juice, Pie, Sauce

summary: Often called Crow's Egg or Southern Crow's Egg, this tall, oddly shaped apple is an excellent fresh-eating variety that has been grown in the southeastern ...

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