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summary: A tasty little apple for fresh eating, but best used for making excellent jelly. Also used as an ornamental crab, though the fruit drop can become a major ...
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characteristics: The flesh is creamy, fine-grained and tender. Very juicy and sharp tending to sour unless fully ripe. It becomes meal after a month in storage.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, sweet and juicy.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and coarse-grained. Dry and sharp, lightly aromatic. Some people say it has a prominent aroma of freshly cut lemons, others ...
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp and chewy. Keeps three months in cold storage.
origins: Native crabapple found in across Eurasia, cultivated in Japan. Introduced in Europe and North America.
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characteristics: The flesh is white and firm. Astringent.
summary: A red-fleshed forest apple native to the hills of central Asia and Europe.
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summary: Red Blossoms, fruit the size of golf balls, purple with pink flesh.
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characteristics: Flesh is creamy white with an occasional tinge of pale green. Tender, slightly coarse-grained, firm and juicy. Sweet-tart.
summary: Great for both fresh eating and cooking, this large apple was found growing in New Zealand and is being hailed as a inhibitor for the growth of cancer cells.
summary: Mid-season flowering tree with an abundance of pink to lilac ornamental flowers, produces orange fruit. Useful for pollinating other apple trees.
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characteristics: Flesh is yellowish. Fine-grained and firm. Tangy and tart with a crisp bite. Aromatic with hints of tangerine and pineapple.
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summary: An American dessert apple, possibly of Scandinavian origin considered by some to be more flavourful than the better known Esopus Spitzenburg when grown in ...
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, juicy and sweet.
origins: Raised in 1979 by John Breach in Kent England. Open pollinated Discovery.
origins: Raised in 1979 by John Breach in Kent England. Open pollinated Discovery.
origins: Raised in 1979 by John Breach in Kent England. Open pollinated Discovery.
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp, juicy and pleasantly sweet. Coarse-grained. Slightly astringent with a flavour of white wine.
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish with a red stain around the core. Crisp and juicy. Tart.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp and firm, brisk.
summary: This was one of several cross-bred varieties produced by William Saunders at Canada's Central Experimental Farm for their tolerance to the cold prairie winters.
summary: An excellent russet-type apple for pies, dried apple rings and jelly. Also favoured among American cider makers.
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summary: An excellent American cooking apple discovered as a chance seedling in the early 1800s.
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summary: A flowering ornamental crabapple that produces glossy red, edible fruit.
summary: A red limb mutation of King of Tompkins County .
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summary: Tastes great in apple jellies and pies. Can been eaten fresh, though on the tart side.
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