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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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summary: An all-red bud mutation of Gravenstein discovered in in Lübeck (Germany) in 1858.
summary: A British eating apple from the 1800s, likely no longer grown.
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summary: This apple can grow huge and it can be grown from seed with reasonable chance that it will produce a similar tree.
summary: Highly regarded as a dessert apple in Victorian England.
summary: A highly coloured mutation of McIntosh from Yugoslavia.
characteristics: Flesh is creamy yellowish, tender and sweet. Juicy and pleasantly aromatic.
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summary: Developed in Sweden during the mid-1900s as part of a programme to find winter hardy cultivars with long shelf life.
origins: Seedling of Hercogiene Elza at the Lithuanian Institute of Horticulture
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summary: Resembles Cox's Orange Pippin in shape, colour and flavour. Excellent when eaten out of hand, but also a remarkable apple for pies and turn-overs.
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characteristics: The flesh is creamy yellow, fine-grained, tender and crisp. It tends to be a bit on the dry side, but with good, sweet-sharp flavour. Let it hang as long as ...
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characteristics: Flesh is off-white, fine-grained. Juicy with a rich, sweet-tart flavour, somewhat reminiscent of pineapple. The flavour tends to be somewhat harsh at harvest ...
summary: A mutation of Jonathan found in 1937 in Allentown, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.)
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Juicy and tender with a tart finish.
summary: Described by Archibald Farquharson Barron in the 1888 issue of "British Apples Illustrated" as "large, conical, even, green-flushed and covered with large ...
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and tender. Juicy, sharp, with a good flavour.
summary: A whole tree mutation of Kidd's D-8 , colours early, dark red overcolour with prominent dark striping. Identified in 2010 by T. Clos at International Fruit Obtention, ...
summary: A chance seedling found in Japan, Believed to be related to Fuji.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and firm. Sweet and verging on sharp, but very mild flavour.
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characteristics: The flesh is firm, coarse-grained, chewy with a tart, vinous flavour.
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characteristics: The flesh is white, often with a red stain under the skin. Very similar to the Crimson Beauty in flavour and texture.
summary: Found as a whole tree mutation of Kidd’s Gala at Drouin, Victoria (Australia) in 2000. Ripens about two weeks earlier than Gala and the fruit is solid red ...
origins: Originated in the Finistère region of Brittany (France).
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characteristics: The flesh is pale green and very sweet, but lacking flavour.
characteristics: Red flesh, white at the core. Firm. Sweet-tart.
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