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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

Greenup’s Pippin

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Type: Cooking, Eating, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is pale yellow, tender, soft, juicy and sharp. Keeps for about two months in cold storage.

Grey Leadington

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Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, tender, sweet, very juicy and aromatic. Keeps in cold storage for two months.

Gros Api

Gros Api

1

Type: Dessert, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is white, moderately fine-grained, crunchy and juicy. Sweet-tart.

Gros Papa

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Type: Eating, Jelly, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, moderately fine grained and tender. Very juicy and sweet with only mild flavours. Ke three months in cold storage.

Guldborg

Guldborg

1

Type: Dessert, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is white. Coarse-grained, firm and melting. Juicy and sweet sharp. Aromatic.

Haas

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Type: Dessert, Eating

characteristics: White, fragrant, juicy and firm flesh. Often stained red under the skin.

Halberstadter Jungfernapfel

Halberstadter Jungfernapfel

2

Type: Cider, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and soft. Very juicy and sweet and somewhat tart to very tart.

Hampshire

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Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, fine grained, firm, crisp and juicy. Sweet, spritely and becomes quite aromatic when allowed to ripen fully on the tree. Keeps three ...

Hans Ulrichs Apfel

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Type: Cider, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained. Juicy and sweet-tart, but the fruit needs to be matured for up to two months in storage to achieve its full, rich ...

Harberts Reinette

Harberts Reinette

1

Type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained and crisp. Sweet-tart and somewhat spicy. Mild flavour.

Harcourt

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Type: Eating, Juice, Sauce

characteristics: Coarse-grained. Crisp and juicy. Moderately sweet.

Harrison Crab

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Eating

summary: Touted as one of the finest cider apples that ever emerged in North America, the Harrison was almost lost, but is once again being cultivated by cider makers.

Harry Black Gala

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Type: Dessert, Eating

summary: A limb mutation of Kidd’s Gala found at Turmont, Maryland (U.S.A.) in 1993. Ready for harvest five weeks later than the parent tree. Solid rich red wash over ...

Harvey's Pippin

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Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is firm, crisp, juicy and well flavoured. Stores about two months.

Harvey’s Reinette

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Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm, crisp, juicy, sweet and brisk.

Haute Bont

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, juicy, sweet and brisk. Aromatic. Keeps well for four months in cold storage.

Hawkridge

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Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, dry and sweet with pronounced briskness. Keeps two months in cold storage.

Heyer 20

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Type: Cooking, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, somewhat coarse, crisp, juicy and tart. The flesh brown quickly once exposed to air. Keeps two to three weeks in cold storage.

Hoary Morning

Hoary Morning

1

Type: Cooking, Cider, Eating

characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, stained red next to the skin. Coarse?grained and firm. Brisk and somewhat sweet with mild flavour. Keeps about two months in storage.

Hog Island Sweet

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Type: Eating, Pie

summary: It may have been the name that curtailed this apple's rise to fame, but it is a fine tasting, very sweet baking and fresh-eating cultivar.

Holstein

Holstein

1

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Distinctly cream-coloured flesh, coarse-grained, juicy and noticeably aromatic, typically with pineapple flavours. Excellent sugar/acid balance. Produces ...

Horse

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse-grained, firm and juicy. It tends to be distinctly tart until ripe or even after storage.

Hubbard’s Pearmain

Hubbard’s Pearmain

1

Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellow coarse?grained, soft, somewhat dry. Very sweet with a nutty flavour. Keeps in storage for about five months.

Hudson's Golden Gem

Hudson's Golden Gem

1

Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice

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 ...

Hughes’s Golden Pippin

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, juicy and brisk. Sweet and aromatic. Keep for two months in storage.

Hume

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is white with some light staining next to the skin. crisp, fine?textured and tender. Juicy, sweet and very fragrant.

Hunt's Russet

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Type: Cider, Eating, Pie

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 ...

Hunter’s Majestic

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Type: Cooking, Eating

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.

Hunt’s Deux Ans

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, somewhat leathery, juicy and sweet, very nutty flavour. Keeps five months in cold storage.

Hunt’s Duke of Gloucester

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Type: Eating

characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp, juicy and very nutty. Sweet sharp. Keeps about three months in cold storage.

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