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: Flesh is pale yellow, tender, soft, juicy and sharp. Keeps for about two months in cold storage.
Synonyms: American Pippin, Councillor, Counseller, Counsellor, Cumberland Favorite, ...
characteristics: White flesh, fine-grained, firm, crisp and juicy. Tangy.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, tender, sweet, very juicy and aromatic. Keeps in cold storage for two months.
Synonyms: Often confused with the Stoup Leadington.
characteristics: The flesh is white, moderately fine-grained, crunchy and juicy. Sweet-tart.
Synonyms: Api Double, Api Grande, Api Grosse, Api rose, Double Rose, Drap d’Or, Gros Api ...
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, moderately fine grained and tender. Very juicy and sweet with only mild flavours. Ke three months in cold storage.
Synonyms: Papa. Note that the Montalivet apple is also known by the synonym Gros Papa but ...
characteristics: The flesh is cream, fine-grained and soft. Juicy, somewhat tart and aromatic.
Synonyms: Guerney. sometimes misspelled Vicking. There is also a cultivar named Viking ...
characteristics: The flesh is white. Coarse-grained, firm and melting. Juicy and sweet sharp. Aromatic.
Synonyms: Gulborg, Peter, Valk
characteristics: White, fragrant, juicy and firm flesh. Often stained red under the skin.
Synonyms: Fall Queen, Gros Pommier, Hass, Hoss, Maryland Queen, mistakenly also called ...
summary: Found as a chance seedling in the southern United States during the 1800s, this is an excellent summer apple.
Synonyms: All Summer
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and soft. Very juicy and sweet and somewhat tart to very tart.
Synonyms: Halberstadter Jungernapfel, Jungfernapfel, Ziemerling, Also sometimes called ...
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 ...
Synonyms: Gould. This variety is often listed as being a mutation of McIntosh which is ...
characteristics: The flesh is coarse?grained, crisp. Sweet? sharp. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
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 ...
Synonyms: Edel Reinette, Christen Apfel, Gelber Hans Müller, Hans Ueri Apfel, Hans Uli ...
characteristics: White flesh, fine-grained, firm, crisp and juicy. Wonderful blend of sweetness and acidity, but that balance emerges best when allowed to fully tree ripen, so ...
Synonyms: Harelson
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained and crisp. Sweet-tart and somewhat spicy. Mild flavour.
Synonyms: Harbert's Rambour, Harbert's Renette, Königsapfel
characteristics: Coarse-grained. Crisp and juicy. Moderately sweet.
characteristics: The flesh is white, medium fine textured, firm and crisp. The flavours and sugars develop when the apple has been hit by a frost. Keeps about a month in cold ...
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.
Synonyms: Harrison, Harrison Cider, Harrison Newark, Late Harrison, Long Stem, Longstem, ...
brix: 14.5
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 ...
characteristics: The flesh is firm, crisp, juicy and well flavoured. Stores about two months.
Synonyms: Dredges Beauty of Wilts
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm, crisp, juicy, sweet and brisk.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, juicy, sweet and brisk. Aromatic. Keeps well for four months in cold storage.
Synonyms: Sometimes called Reinette Grise, though this can cover a variety of apples.
summary: This is the original apple that started the massive trend to supermarket apples with its mutation, best known as the Red Delicious.
Synonyms: Hawkeye Delicious, Heritage Delicious, Old-fashioned Delicious, Red Delicious, ...
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, dry and sweet with pronounced briskness. Keeps two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp and slightly coarse-grained. Juicy, very sweet, low acidity, somewhat aromatic. Keeps two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Juicy and sweet-tart. Aromatic.
brix: 12.1
sg: 1.0487
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.
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.
Synonyms: Bachelor’s Glory, Morgen Apfel, Blendon Seedling, Brouillard, Dainty, Downey, ...
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.
Synonyms: Hog Island, Hog Apple, Hog Sweeting, Sweet Pippin, Van Kleck’s Sweet, Van ...