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.
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.
Summary: A sweet, juicy and flavourful eating apple, the Ambrosia stems from a chance seedling found in British Columbia's orchard country.
Synonyms: Mennell’s Ambrosia
Summary: Originating during the mid-1800s in the American heartland, this seedling of Winesap is an excellent multipurpose apple.
Synonyms: Arkansas, Blacktwig, Mammoth Black Twig, Paragon
Summary: One of about 50 apple cultivars developed under the PRI (Purdue University, Rutgers University and the University of Illinois) programme using Malus floribunda ...
Synonyms: Marketed as Prima, also known as Priestly Prima.
Characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and coarse-grained. The apple is crisp sweet-sharp and refreshing.
Synonyms: Smith's Seedling, Granny Smith's Seedling
Characteristics: Flesh is tender, finely textured, yellowish and crisp. Well balanced sweetness and tartness. Savoury and spicy. Brix 11.5, acidity 7.2 g/litre. The fruit is ste ...
Synonyms: Graasten, Grafenapfel, Gravenstein, Gravensteiner, Grafensteiner, Banks Red, ...
Characteristics: Cream-coloured flesh. Very crisp and breaking, coarse-grained, juicy with a sweet-tart taste. Sometimes a hint of pear drop, but Honeycrisp apples from the star ...
Synonyms: Honeycrisp. Honey Crisp, Honeycrunch in Europe. Tested as MN 1711.
Characteristics: Flesh is creamy-yellow, fine-grained, tender and crisp. Juicy. Brisk and refreshing when first picked, maturing in storage, but it tends to go mealy if left to ...
Synonyms: Baroveski, Borovinka, Borovitsky, Borowitsky, Charlamovka, Charlamowiski, ...
Characteristics: The flesh is white, occasionally streaked red under the skin. Soft and fine textured and melting. Juicy, tangy and sweet with a strawberry flavour.
Synonyms: Most commonly known as Snow. Other synonyms include American Nonpareil, Chimney ...
Characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, somewhat grainy and firm. A crisp, juicy, sweet and sprightly apple which has considerable flavour typical of Cox's Orange Pippin when tr ...
Synonyms: Originally named Kidd's D-8 and subsequently marketed as Kidd's Gala and Gala ...
Characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained, firm and crisp. Moderately juicy, sometimes rather dry, very sweet, tart. Brix 14.6
Synonyms: Brown's Golden Sweet, Tallman Sweeting, Tolman's Sweet, Tolman's Sweeting, ...
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, fine-grained, crisp and juicy. Somewhat tart, very aromatic and distinctly spicy. Look for honey, pear and citrus notes and a vani ...
Synonyms: Connecticut Seek-No-Farther (this is also a synonym for Yellow Bellflower), ...
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, ...
Summary: A multipurpose apple mostly grown in the gardens of rural France.
Synonyms: a Paquets, Sucrevert, Surre
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), ...
Summary: See Danziger Kantapfel
Synonyms: Abraham's Apple, Father Abraham's Apple, Calville de Danzig, Danziger Kantapfel, ...
Summary: Remarkably sweet, late summer apple with red-tinged flesh.
Summary: An early fresh eating apple. Developed in the southeast United States.
Summary: Similar to the iconic McIntosh in taste and colour, but larger in size and firmer in texture.
Synonyms: Buhr McIntosh
Summary: A German heritage cultivar from the 1800s. Excellent eating apple, as well as baking, juice and cider.
Synonyms: Achimer Goldrenette, Celler Dickstiel, Donnerhorst, Krugers Dickstiel, ...
Summary: This is an excellent heritage eating apple and is also used for cider.
Synonyms: Adams (this is also the name of an ornamental crabapple), Adam's Parmane, Adam's ...
Characteristics: The flesh is slightly greenish, somewhat coarse-grained and juicy.
Synonyms: Originally known as Jack's Number One.
Summary: Developed in the 1840s, this calville style apple is juicy and sweet with just a touch of refreshing tang.
Synonyms: Adersleber, Adersleber Kalvill, Lichthardsapfel, Calville d Adersleben
Summary: With a low chill requirement, this cultivar is suitable to warm climates.
Synonyms: Frankad, Stark Adina, Satark Adina
Characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish, coarse grained, soft. Sweet and aromatic.
Synonyms: Gloria, Togo of Upton
Characteristics: The flesh is light cream colour, fine grained and firm.. Juicy, sweet with very low acidity. up to six months in cold storage with no appreciable loss of textu ...
Synonyms: Marketed as African Carmine.
Characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, crisp. Sweet-tart and juicy.
Synonyms: Marketed as Elegant.
Characteristics: The flesh is faintly yellow and crisp. Very juicy. Distinctly aromatic, sweet and spicy.
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm. Juicy and sweet-tart.
Synonyms: Garden Beauty
Summary: A red-fleshed apple found as a chance seedling in Oregon State. See also Mountain Rose .
Synonyms: Aerlie, Airlie, Airlie's Red Flesh, Hidden Rose
Characteristics: The flesh is crisp, juicy. Sweet balanced with a slight tartness.
Synonyms: Akiba
Characteristics: Slight yellowish tinge. Crisp. Juicy, sweet-tart. Brix 14.0
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., ...
Characteristics: Lime flavour. Sugar content as high as Brix 21.
Summary: A redfleshed apple that can be used for both culinary and decorative purposes.
Synonyms: Aldenham Crabapple, Purple Crab, Rosebloom Crab
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, ...
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 ...
Characteristics: Cream-coloured flesh is fine-grained, crisp, juicy and generally dense. Slightly tart. Look for a honeyed flavour. Very aromatic. Brix 12.9.
Synonyms: Alkemene, Early Windsor
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 pos ...
Synonyms: Allen Everlasting, Harvey’s Everlasting
Characteristics: The flesh is soft and juicy. Sweet-tart. Flavour profile is similar to McIntosh.
Synonyms: Alnarp, Alnarp's Favorite, Alnarp's Favourite, Alnarps Favourite, Favorit, ...
Summary: An indigenous varietal, highly regarded by apple lovers in India but virtually unknown elsewhere.
Synonyms: Amri
Summary: A sweet, juicy and flavourful eating apple, the Ambrosia stems from a chance seedling found in British Columbia's orchard country.
Synonyms: Mennell’s Ambrosia
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish and dense. Somewhat coarse grained and chewy, sweet and aromatic with a vinous flavour.
Synonyms: Beauty of America, Sterling, Sterling Beauty