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Api
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp and fine-grained. Very juicy, very sweet, slightly tart and very aromatic.
Synonyms: Almindelig, American Lady, Apia, Appia, Bölleapfel, Bölleöpfel, Bollenapfel, ...
Calville Blanc d’Hiver
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, fine-grained, juicy, sweet and aromatic. Flavour is distinctively reminiscent of bananas.
Synonyms: Blanche de Zurich, Blandureau d'Auvergne, Bonnet Carrée, Calville Blanc, ...
Gravenstein
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Flesh is tender, finely textured, yellowish and crisp. Well balanced sweetness and tartness. Savoury and spicy. Brix 11.5, acidity 7.2 g/litre. The fruit is ste ...
Synonyms: Graasten, Grafenapfel, Gravenstein, Gravensteiner, Grafensteiner, Banks Red, ...
Crimson Gold
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Crisp and crunchy. Spicy and slightly tangy.
Synonyms: Originally called Little Rosybloom by breeder Albert Etter.
Maiden Blush
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is white, often with a tinge of yellow if left to fully tree-ripen. Crisp, fine-grained, tender and very tart when first picked, but mellows with matu ...
Synonyms: Lady Blush, Red Cheek, Ushalla, Vestal. Also sometimes called Maiden’s Blush, ...
McIntosh
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Flesh is bright white stained red next to the skin, crisp, mildly tart, quite sweet and tasting somewhat of elderberry and spice. Tends to lose its tartness in ...
Synonyms: Gem, MacIntosh, McIntosh Red, Mac, Mack
Mutsu
Type: dessert
Summary: A juicy and sweet eating apple, the Mutsu was developed in Japan during the 1930s.
Synonyms: Crispin, Matzu.
Ribston Pippin
Type: dual
Summary: A classic dessert apple which fell into relative obscurity with the arrival of the Cox's Orange Pippin.
Synonyms: Beautiful Pippin, Essex Pippin, Formosa, Formosa Pippin, Glory of York, Reinette ...
Warner’s King
Type: culinary
Summary: The cooking apple from Britain is another in a class of oversize varieties grown for market and farm gate sales.
Synonyms: Barker’s Seedling, D. T. Fisch, D. T. Fish, David T. Fish, Drumlanrig Castle, ...
Westfield Seek-No-Further
Type: dessert
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, fine-grained, crisp and juicy. Somewhat tart, very aromatic and distinctly spicy. Look for honey, pear and citrus notes and a vani ...
Synonyms: Connecticut Seek-No-Farther (this is also a synonym for Yellow Bellflower), ...
White Winter Pearmain
Type: dessert
Characteristics: The flesh is white, sometimes yellow. Tender, fine-grained and crisp. Juicy, sweet, sprightly with a honeyed flavour.
Synonyms: White Pearmain, Cambellite, Campbellite, Griffin's Pearmain
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à Troche
Type: dessert
Summary: A multipurpose apple mostly grown in the gardens of rural France.
Synonyms: a Paquets, Sucrevert, Surre
Aargauer Jubiläum
Type: culinary
Summary: A Swiss apple from the Canton Aargau, along the German border. Used for cooking and cider.
Synonyms: Aargauer Jubilaums, Aargauer Jubiläumsapfel, Neuenhoffer, Jubilé d'Argovie, ...
Agathe von Klanxbüll
Type: dessert
Characteristics: The flesh is slightly yellowish. Juicy, sweet-tart, with distinct aroma of roses.
Ananas Berzenicki
Type: dessert
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 Reinette
Type: dessert
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine grained, crisp. Sweet-sharp. Its signature pineapple flavour becomes more pronounced in storage. Rich in Vitamin C.
Synonyms: Ananas, Ananas Renette, Pineapple Reinette, Goldapfel, Kindbetter. Note that the ...
Ananas Rouge
Type: dessert
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 i ...
Synonyms: Ananas, Red Pineapple, Roter Ananasapfel. Note that the Ananas Reinette and ...
Anisa
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is white and tender. Fine-grained. Very juicy, sweet, somewhat acidic and with a distinct aniseed flavour.
Synonyms: Anisa Sagarra, Anisha, Apez Sagarra, Udarre Zagarra, Uggaria Zagarra
Annie Elizabeth
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse-grained and dense. Somewhat dry and quite sharp. When cut open, there is a strong, sweet aroma.
Synonyms: Carter’s Seedling, Sloto, Sussex Pippin, The George
Api
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp and fine-grained. Very juicy, very sweet, slightly tart and very aromatic.
Synonyms: Almindelig, American Lady, Apia, Appia, Bölleapfel, Bölleöpfel, Bollenapfel, ...
Api Rouge
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white and crunchy, Sweet and tart
Synonyms: Api Double Rose, Api, Api rose, Petit api, api fin, de long bois, lady apple, ...
Arboisine
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is Sweet?tart, aromatic.
Synonyms: Arboise
Augusta
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Medium tending to large. Oblong with pronounced ribbing. The base colour is green with a reddish blush on the sun exposed face.
Auralia
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained and crisp. Very juicy and sweet. Intense, rich flavours. Btuises easily.
Synonyms: Tumanga
Avrolles
Type: cider
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
Backwell Red
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white and very sharp, fruity. Medium sharp, vintage.
Ballyvaughan Seedling
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is crisp and firm. It tends to be sharp with a lingering sweet aftertaste. Some people say it re minds them of brandy.
Synonyms: White Moss
Bardsey
Type: dual
Characteristics: Juicy and sweet with a unique aroma of lemon.
Synonyms: Bardsey Island, Merlin's Apple
Belle de Buits
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is slightly yellowish, firm, crispand fine grained. Juicy, sweet and aromatic. Keeps up to six months in cold storage.
Synonyms: Pierre
Belle Flavoise
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is tinged greenish, tender. Juicy, crisp and quite sharp.
Synonyms: Yellow Bellflower, incorrectly.
Belle Limousine
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crunchy. Juicy, sweet.
Berner Rosenapfel
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is greenish with some red stains under the skin, fine grained. Very juicy, very sweet, refreshingly tart with a spicy flavour. Turns brown with exposu ...
Synonyms: Berne Rose, Berner Rose, Bernese Rose
Blushing Golden
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Flesh is creamy yellow, somewhat coarse in texture, but firm. Juicy with a good sweet?tart balance. Hints of pear and banana and, to some people a fermented aft ...
Synonyms: Griffith, Griffith Gold, Stark's Blushing Gold, Stark's Blushing Golden
Boiken
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp, firm and finegrained. Somewhat dry, sweet-tart with good aroma.
Bottle Greening
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, melting and very juicy. Sweet-sharp and aromatic.
Boucasse de Br s
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine grained and soft. Juicy, sweet, slightly tart, fruity and aromatic. The flavour develops after a month in storage and it keeps up t ...
Synonyms: Boucasse de Bres, La Marie de Bres, Marie de Br s, Jeannette des CŽvennes, ...
Braeburn
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Crisp and juicy with pale cream flesh. The flavour is sharp and refreshing with a background sweetness. Look for pear-drop flavours. Brix 12.4
Synonyms: Braeburne
Bramley Original
Type: apple
Characteristics: acid
Synonyms: Bramley
Brettacher Sämling
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy, refreshingly tart and somewhat spicy. Brix 12.4.
Synonyms: Brettacher Samling, Brettacher Seedling, Brettacher
Brown's
Type: cider
Summary: A vintage-grade, sharp cider apple that originated in Devon.
Synonyms: Browns
Brownlees’ Russet
Type: dual
Characteristics: Flesh is greenish white, tender, and firm. Nutty with fruit-drop flavour and intensely sweet sharp.
Synonyms: Brownlee Russet, Brownlee's Russet, Brownlees, Brownlees' Renette, Brownley's ...