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.
characteristics: Distinctly cream-coloured flesh, coarse-grained, juicy and noticeably aromatic, typically with pineapple flavours. Excellent sugar/acid balance. Produces ...
Synonyms: Holstein Cox, Holsteiner Cox
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse-grained, firm and juicy. It tends to be distinctly tart until ripe or even after storage.
Synonyms: Carolina Horse, Haas (there is also a cultivar by the name Haas ), Green Horse, ...
characteristics: The flesh is red under the skin and close to the core, often with white or pink between the two. Crisp with a sweet-tart flavour with distinct notes of berries.
Synonyms: Trade marked and marketed as Lucy Rose
brix: 15
characteristics: Flesh is pale cream, firm, crisp and fine? grained. Sharp, sweet with a lot of juice. Tends to be rather bland.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow coarse?grained, soft, somewhat dry. Very sweet with a nutty flavour. Keeps in storage for about five months.
Synonyms: Golden King, Golden Russet Pearmain, Golden Vining, Hammon’s, Hammon’s ...
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, crisp, coarse-grained and breaking. Juicy and very sweet with a nutty, Bosc-pear flavour and, when fully ripe, it becomes soft and grainy ...
Synonyms: Hudson, Hudson Golden Gem
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, juicy and brisk. Sweet and aromatic. Keep for two months in storage.
characteristics: The flesh is white with some light staining next to the skin. crisp, fine?textured and tender. Juicy, sweet and very fragrant.
summary: This old heritage apple dates back to colonial America. Like most russets, it has a sweet, nutty, pear flavour that continues to develop as it matures in ...
Synonyms: Hunt Russet, Fay's Russet, Russet Pearmain. Also called Golden Russet, but this ...
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse grained and soft. Sweet tart and somewhat too brisk for eating out of hand, but becoming sweeter after harvest.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, somewhat leathery, juicy and sweet, very nutty flavour. Keeps five months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp, juicy and very nutty. Sweet sharp. Keeps about three months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is light green, coarse?grained,tender and juicy. Very fragrant with hints of balsam. Sharp when first picked but softening in storage. Keeps two ...
characteristics: Tender, juicy white flesh. Rich, and honey sweet with no hint of tartness. Keeps well.
characteristics: sweet sharp.
Synonyms: Improved Keswick, Tamar Apple.
characteristics: The flesh cream-coloured, fine-grained is sweet-tart and fragrant.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured and soft, coarse grained. Juicy and tart. Aromatic, reminiscent of pineapples. The skin is thick but sensitive to bruising. Brix ...
brix: 12.8
sg: 1.0517
characteristics: Flesh is cream?coloured, firm and fine textured, juicy and sweet with only slight tartness. Flavour is light and reminiscent of the Cox parent. The red colour ...
Synonyms: Christmas apple, Hoed Orange, Marie
characteristics: Flesh is cream-coloured. Fine-grained, crisp and juicy. Sweet-sharp and aromatic.
Synonyms: Early Apple, Early Crofton, Early Crofton Small, Small Early Crofton. Sometimes ...
characteristics: The flesh is white with greenish tinges, firm. Juicy and mildly sweet-sharp and aromatic.
Synonyms: Isle of Wight Orange, Isle of Wight Golden Pippin, Marigold, Marigold Pippin, ...
sg: 1.074
summary: Very old variety grown mainly Central Europe.
Synonyms: Vinary, Jadernice, Cowsfarm, Kuhländer-Gulderling, Pepin de Moravie
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish, soft. Juicy, sweet and sprightly. Browns quickly when exposed to air.
Synonyms: Jacob Fischer, Jacob Fisher, Schšner vom Oberland, Roter vom Oberland.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy-white, fine-grained and soft when ripe, much like that of a firm Anjou pear. It tends to be on the sharp side, but it will sweeten and ...
brix: 10.6
sg: 1.0425
characteristics: A McIntosh style apple. Greenish white flesh, soft, fine grained and juicy. Well balanced sweet and tart, fragrant. Flavour is at its peak for about a week ...
Synonyms: Jerseymac
characteristics: White, juicy flesh. Sweet but often bland in flavour. Keeps three months in cold storage.
Synonyms: Malling Jester
summary: Makes excellent apple jelly, can be used for cider and the tree is an excellent source of pollen over a two week span.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, sweet and juicy. Aromatic and flavourful.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm, fine-grained. Sweet tart, with strawberry and vanilla flavours. Best flavours emerge toward the end of its storage period.
Synonyms: Alfred Jolibois, Joli Bois, Jolie Bois.