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.
origins: Discovered in 1994 by Dr. L.R. Littleton, this old apple tree was found, barely clinging to life, in the old Berrier Orchard near Cana, Virginia. Renee Berrier ...
summary: This upright growing, narrow spindle tree is at home in small gardens and on terraces where with basic care, it produces surprising harvests. Normally grows to ...
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summary: Sweet-tart eating apple developed in France during the 1900s. In addition to its sprightly flavours, it is also favoured as a culinary apple and is fairly ...
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characteristics: The flesh is yellow and crisp. Juicy, sweet-sharp, slightly bitter and with flavours of pineapples and strawberries. The skin colour tends to stain into the ...
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Firm Juicy and sweet.
summary: A chance seedling that emerged in the the northern panhandle of West Virginia a year or two after the Golden Delicious . Though similar, it is listed as a distinct variety.
summary: California-bred in the mid-1900s by Albert Etter, this tree produces large, golden-yellow fruit which is favoured for fresh eating, cooking and making cider. ...
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origins: An open-pollinated seedling of Malus ionsis. Developed by Arie den Boer at the Den Boer Arboretum in Des Moines, Iowa (U.S.A.) and introduced in 1953. Malus x ...
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summary: Originally grown from seed by early settlers along the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada during the early 1700s, this apple is excellent for fresh eating, ...
characteristics: The flesh is white stained red next to the skin. Aromatic. Full sharp cider apple.
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summary: Freedom shows excellent resistance to scab and most other diseases and produces a heavy fruit load of apples that favoured for fresh eating as well as pies and ...
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summary: This multipurpose, red-fleshed apple adds sharpness to cider, produces excellent apple jelly and its large, pink blossoms are spectacular.
summary: A red mutation of Golden Reinette . Originated in The Netherlands.
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summary: Dessert apple, also used for making juice, but it shines as a cider apple providing an intense sweet-sharp flavour and high specific gravity in the juice.
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summary: Grown primarily for ornamental purposes. The golden-yellow fruit is small — about the size of a table tennis ball — but they can be used to make a ...
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characteristics: Flesh is yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet. Tangy with a intense fruity flavour.
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summary: Originated in Europe during the 1600s and spread by monks on their travels, later by explorers and settlers in the new world. It was likely the pollen parent of ...
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summary: While it is widely used as a fresh-eating apple, it also makes wonderful dried apple rings and a good choice for the flavour component and enhanced fermentation ...
summary: Listed alongside some of the finest North American cider apples—the Harrison Crab , Campfield and Poveshon —the Graniwinkle is a basic ingredient, paired with the Harrison, ...
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summary: A tangy cooking and cider apple from the British Isles. Goes well with soft cheeses.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, moderately fine grained and tender. Very juicy and sweet with only mild flavours. Ke three months in cold storage.
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summary: Please see Yellow Transparent
summary: This large crabapple can tolerate punishing winter conditions and still grow medium size fruit that is suitable for fresh eating, pickling and apple jelly and ...
summary: Ornamental crabapple tree that produces an abundance pink flowers in the spring and heavy crops of early crabs for mid-summer jelly.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Juicy and tart.
summary: Very old variety grown mainly Central Europe.
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summary: Makes excellent apple jelly, can be used for cider and the tree is an excellent source of pollen over a two week span.
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish, tender. Juicy, sweet with a vinous flavour.
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