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Amtmannsapfel
Type: Eating
summary: Dating back to the late 1700s, this north German cultivar has likely disappeared.
Synonyms: Ammtmann’s Apple, Ammtmann’s Calville, Amptman’s, Amtmann’s Apfel.
Ananas Berzenicki
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Jelly, Juice
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, firm. Juicy with a good, sweet-tart balance with a wine flavour.
Synonyms: Berzininky ananasas, Berzininky Pineapple, Hrebnicki’s Rennet Apple, Reneta ...
Ananas Rouge
Type: Dessert, Eating, Juice, Pie
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish white, stained pink under the skin. Fine grained, firm. Sweet, lightly tart with a pronounced pineapple flavour which matures to strawberry ...
Synonyms: Ananas, Red Pineapple, Roter Ananasapfel. Note that the Ananas Reinette and ...
Anna
Type: Dessert, Eating, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is cream white, firm, juicy. The flavour is sweet and sprightly when the fruit is allowed to ripen on the tree. Requires careful monitoring since it ...
Anna Boelens
Type: Dessert, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp and moderately juicy. Slightly acidic with an aniseed flavour.
Api
Type: Cider, Eating, Juice
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp and fine-grained. Very juicy, very sweet, slightly tart and highly aromatic.
Synonyms: Almindelig, American Lady, Apia, Appia, Cardinal, Christmas Apple, Lady, Lady ...
Api Étoilé
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine grained, crunchy and sweet-tart. Aromatic.
Synonyms: Star Apple, Sternapfel, Pentagone, Pentagonale, Longue queue. Sometimes also ...
Api Noir
Type: Eating
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine?grained and soft. Sweet and aromatic. Becomes mealy very quickly in storage.
Synonyms: de Caluau, Calvau Noir, pommier ˆ fruit noir Api chernoe, Apis Noir, Black Lady ...
Applethorpe Earlidel
Type: Eating
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, medium to coarse grained and firm. Juicy and sweet, slightly brisk. Mildly aromatic.
Appletown Wonder
Type: Dessert, Eating
summary: This Irish apple grows to huge size, tastes great and becomes sweeter in storage.
Applewaites
Type: Dessert, Eating
summary: A limb mutation of Kidd’s Gala discovered in 1983 at Hastings (New Zealand). Dark red over 70 t 90 per cent of the surface with no striping. Ripens a few days ...
Arends
Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, medium-grained, crisp and firm. Juicy, sweet-tart, winey and strawberry flavours.
Synonyms: Marketed as Paulared and Paula Red. Often called Early Mac.
Arlet
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, fine textured and firm, Very juicy, sweet and somewhat tart. Excellent pineapple flavour with hints of melon and cane sugar. Brix ...
Synonyms: Swiss Gourmet
brix: 12.5
sg: 1.0504
Atlas
Type: Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white with some red staining next to the skin. Coarse textured, crisp, and firm. Moderately juicy, brisk and flavourful. Keeps a month or ...
Synonyms: Red Atlas
Augustus Pearmain
Type: Eating
characteristics: The flesh is tender, juicy and brisk with plenty of aroma.
Aunt Rachel
Type: Cooking, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm and juicy. Slightly tart.
Auralia
Type: Eating, Juice
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained and crisp. Very juicy and sweet. Intense, rich flavours. Btuises easily.
Synonyms: Tumanga
Autumn Crisp
Type: Eating
characteristics: The flesh is white. Crisp and fine-grained. Juicy and tart. Resists browning when exposed to air.
Synonyms: Initially labelled NY 674
Autumn Harvest
Type: Cooking, Eating
characteristics: Flesh is firm, tender, and coarse grained. Somewhat dry. The flesh browns very soon after being exposed to air.
Synonyms: ????Cumberland Lemon Pippin????
Avrolles
Type: Cider, Eating, Juice
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, often stained red next to the skin. Moderately tender. Juicy, sweet and very tart.
Synonyms: Avrolle, Pomme Rouge, Pomme Aigre
brix: 13.5
sg: 1.0547
Balchin's Pearmain
Type: Cooking, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm, crisp and very juicy. Sweet and flavourful.
Baldwin
Type: Cooking, Cider, Eating, Pie
summary: Originated in the 1700s in the northeastern United States of America, this baking apple is also favoured for cider.
Synonyms: Butters, Butter's Apple, Pecker, Red Baldwin Pippin, Steele's Red Winter, ...
brix: 15.5
sg: 1.0632
tannins: 6
Bancroft
Type: Eating
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, tender and fine grained with some crispness. Juicy with a refreshing tartness and mild flavour. Keeps for up to five months in cold ...
Barcelona Pearmain
Type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm and crisp. Very juicy and aromatic. The flavour improves in storage.
Synonyms: Speckled Golden Reinette, Speckled Pearmain, Polinia Pearmain. It is also ...
Barchard’s Seedling
Type: Culinary, Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Sweet and pleasantly tart.
Barry
Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, often stained red next to the skin. Coarse-grained, somewhat firm. Juicy, sweet- tart and slightly aromatic.
Battleford
Type: Culinary, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse grained and crisp. Firm. Sweet tart.
brix: 14.5
sg: 1.0589
Baujade
Type: Dessert, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine textured, firm, juicy, moderately sweet and sprightly. Aromatic.
Synonyms: Sometimes written Beaujade.
Baxter
Type: Eating
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, ocassionally stained red next to the skin an somewhat firm and coarse grained though tender. Sprightly, sweet, juicy and mildly ...
Synonyms: Baxter's Red, Larue and Red Pound