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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 eating

Lewis’ Incomparable

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Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm and crisp. Quite juicy and brisk.

Leyden Pippin

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender and brisk.

Limelight

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Type: Dessert, Eating

characteristics: Essentially an improved Greensleeves, this apple is crisp and juicy, with creamy white flesh, very much like the Discovery parent. Even the faint strawberry ...

Lindel

Lindel

1

Type: Eating, Pie

characteristics: Cream coloured flesh is firm, crisp and coarse-grained. Juicy, very sweet and slightly tart. Mildly aromatic.

Linsenhofer

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Type: Cider, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and firm. Juicy and somewhat tart.

listed

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Type: Eating, Pie

characteristics: Yellowish white flesh, tender, crisp sweet and juicy with a distinct pear drop aroma with hints of vanilla. skin tends to be tough.

Lodgemore Nonpareil

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yelllowish, firm, crisp. Juicy, sweet and slightly sharp. Aromatic. Keeps amazingly well in storage for almost five months.

Lodi

Lodi

1

Type: Culinary, Eating, Juice, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: White flesh, somewhat coarse-grained and soft. Juicy, slightly tart and sweet. Hints of lime and vanilla.

Longville’s Kernel

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Type: Cider, Eating

summary: A Herefordshire variety, this is among the earliest-ripening sweet-sharp cider apples.

Lord Burghley

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, very tender and juicy. Sweet?sharp with a piny flavour. Keeps about four months in cold storage.

Lord Hindlip

Lord Hindlip

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, fine-grained, firm. Juicy, sweet and aromatic.

Lord Lennox

Lord Lennox

1

Type: Dessert, Eating

summary: A Victorian dessert apple, grown extensively in England through the 1800s.

Lowell

Lowell

1

Type: Cooking, Eating

summary: Can be used for baking as well as eating out of hand, but tends to ripen progressively over several weeks and drops from the tree as soon as it is ripe.

Lowland Raspberry

Lowland Raspberry

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, sometimes with red stains under the skin. Fine-grained, tender and very juicy and aromatic with a slight raspberry flavour.

Lubsk Queen

Lubsk Queen

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

summary: A tasty, brisk summer apple that originated in Russia. Good eaten fresh but also makes great pies and sauce.

Lucombe's Pine

Lucombe's Pine

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, firm and tender. Juicy, brisk with a sharp definite pineapple flavour.

Lynn

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, medium firm, crisp and juicy with mild acidity. The tartness mellows in storage. Last up to four months in cool storage or two weeks ...

Macfree

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Type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is white with a slight green tinge, firm, moderately coarse. Juicy and slightly tart.

Macoun

Macoun

1

Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

summary: Developed in New York State in the 1920s, this progeny of the McIntosh is a refreshing eating apple and makes great apple sauce.

Magnum Bonum

Magnum Bonum

1

Type: Cider, Eating, Juice

characteristics: White flesh, sometimes stained pink next to the skin, tender and fine textured, sweet tart and quite juicy, somewhat reminiscent of a McIntosh. The apples store ...

Makepeace

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Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Juicy and sweet. Keeps two months in cold storage.

Malinda

Malinda

1

Type: Eating, Pie

summary: It is good eaten fresh, but also good in pies and makes great dried apple slices.

Malling Kent

Malling Kent

1

Type: Dessert, Eating

characteristics: Flesh is light cream coloured. Firm and somewhat coarse-grained. Juicy and tangy, flavourful. Can be bitter, lacking flavour and acidic in poor growing ...

Malling Suntan

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Type: Cider, Eating, Sauce

characteristics: Cream coloured flesh is coarse?grained, firm and crisp. Juicy sweet?sharp and aromatic. Tends to be tart if not left to mature adequately.

Malus baccata

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Type: Eating, Jelly, Ornamental

origins: Native crabapple found in across Eurasia, cultivated in Japan. Introduced in Europe and North America.

Malus pumila

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Type: Eating, Juice

summary: This is the basic apple tree that is consumed, cooked or raw, jellied and sauced, world wide. It is cross bred and interbred to create over eight thousand ...

Malus sieversii

Malus sieversii

2

Type: Cider, Eating, Pie

summary: Recognized as being the progenitor of the domestic apple, this is considered the true wild apple, native to Kazakhstan and spread to points west by way of the ...

Manaccan Primrose

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Type: Cooking, Eating

origins: Possibly a mutation of the Rattler Core originating in Cornwall (U.K.). Rated as a superior apple to the Rattle Core.

Manitoba Spy

Manitoba Spy

1

Type: Eating, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Moderately fine-grained and firm. Aromatic.

Mannington’s Pearmain

Mannington’s Pearmain

1

Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine?grained, firm, crisp and very sweet flavour. Moderately juicy, Brisk and nutty. For the best flavours, the fruit must hang on the ...

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