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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, fine grained and soft. Juicy with a refreshing sweet-tart balance, but can be highly acidic in cooler growing areas. Tends to be ...
summary: Bred as a supermarket variety, this Honeycrisp-type club apple produces annual crops ready for harvest early in the season.
summary: Intended as a market apple to be grown in large orchard operations. Great for fresh eating. Works well in retail sales as well as u-picks.
summary: A vigorous, tall tree with large, sweet-tart fruit that has a long storage period. Sensitive to disease.
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp, juicy and pleasantly sweet. Coarse-grained. Slightly astringent with a flavour of white wine.
summary: Similar in Red Delicious in size, colour but has a milder flavour.
summary: Though not officially released, this large apple has been described as a hardy and fresh-eating apple lends itself to pies as well as apple sauce.
summary: Bred for its genetic resistance to apple scab as well as its appearance and performance, this brisk and juicy apple is an alternative to the popular Honeycrisp.
summary: Well suited for fresh apple and in u-pick, retail, and wholesale operations.
summary: A tart and crunchy, mid-season apple, best left to mature for a month or more. Originally intended for commercial orchards, it can be variable in its production ...
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summary: One of several columnar apple trees developed at the East Malling Research Station during the late 1900s, this is a late-blooming, late harvest dessert apple ...
summary: Found as a whole tree mutation of the Tenroy Royal Gala by Larry Olson in 1988 on the Olsen Brothers orchard at Prosser, Washington (U.S.A.). The patent is held ...
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Juicy, sweet and flavourful winth hints of raspberry. Brix 11.5, acidity 8.3 g/litre
summary: Stemming from the Blue Pearmain, this tree grows vigorously, tolerates cold weather and produces multi-purpose fruit. Well suited to small orchards and ...
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characteristics: The flesh is white, semi-firm. coarse-grained and sweet. Tends to be dry. Browns easily and quickly when exposed to air.
summary: A firm, crimson fresh-eating apple found growing in a Western Canadian orchard in the late 1900s. Similar to Spartans in flavour and appearance.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, juicy and sweet. Well flavoured. Keeps up to two months in cold storage.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Juicy and sweet with rich flavours.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, sometimes stained red next to the skin. Fine-grained, crisp, juicy and sharp. Rich, sprightly.
summary: Discovered as a whole tree mutation of Tenroy Gala near Prosser, Washington (U.S.A.) in August, 1989 by Richard Olsen and Larry Olsen. More intensely striped and ...
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, fine-grained, tender and crisp. Juicy, sprightly and aromatic. Needs to be in storage for a few weeks before the flavours and ...
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summary: With a flavour and textures similar to its Cox parent, this German-bred apple ripens two to three weeks earlier. Needs shelter from the wind and fertile ...
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and coarse-grained. Sweet and aromatic.
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summary: A bud mutation of the Albany Beauty which in itself is a bud mutation of Gravenstein .
characteristics: The flesh is pale cream coloured, coarse grained and soft. Juicy and very tart.
summary: A refreshing eating apple highly regarded in Victorian England.
summary: A mutation of Oregon Spur Red Delicious . Found by Robert Bagwill growing in the Twin W Orchard near Orondo, Douglas County, Washington State (U.S.A.) in 1978. It colours about 10 ...
summary: Found growing as a limb mutation of Red King Delicious by Wayne Turnbull in his orchard in Milton-Freewater, Oregon (U.S.A.) in the mid-1960s. It bears fruit on spurs and ...
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