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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.
Pomiferous
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American Crabapple
Type: Ornamental
origins: Native to the Great Lakes region of North America.
Synonyms: Sweet Crabapple, Garland Crabapple, Malus coronaria
Columbia Crab
Type: Cider, Jelly
characteristics: Light cream. Moderately fine-grained. Very juicy, sour and lightly astringent.
Cranberry
Type: Cider, Jelly
characteristics: The flesh is red and crisp. Juicy, tart and flavourful with a tannic finish. Raspberry/strawberry flavours. Red juice.
Synonyms: Very small, conic fruit, dark red. Through mid?autumn.
Redfield
Type: Cider, Eating, Jelly, Pie
summary: Often used as a landscaping ornamental variety, the Redfield looks and tastes great in apple jellies and pies. It can even been eaten fresh when tree-ripened, ...
Siberian Crabapple
Type: Culinary, Jelly, Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is very sour.
Synonyms: Malus baccata, Chinese crab, Manchurian crab
Malus florentina
Type: Ornamental
summary: Ornamental tree. Blooms very late.
Synonyms: Florentine crabapple
Malus fusca
Type:
characteristics: The flesh is very acidic, but can be eaten both raw and cooked.
Synonyms: Oregon crabapple, Pacific crabapple
Malus halliana
Type: Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is yellow. Very juicy and astringent.
Synonyms: Hall crabapple
Malus ioensis
Type: Cooking, Jelly, Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is white and firm. Astringent.
Synonyms: Iowa Crab, Prairie Crab, Texas Crab
Trail Crab
Type: Cooking, Eating, Ornamental
summary: An edible crabapple, though primarily ornamental.
Malus coronaria
Type: Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is white and sharp, sour.
Synonyms: American crabapple, Garland crab, Sweet crabapple
Eleyi
Type:
summary: Pink flowering ornamental tree. Heavy blossom clusters, rust colour on new leaves, turning dark green in summer. Turning orange in fall. Flowers are moderately ...
Synonyms: Malus x purpurea 'Eleyi'
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Adirondack Crabapple
Type: Ornamental
origins: An open-pollinated seedling of Hall Crab (Malus Halliana). Selected by Don Egolf at the United States National Arboretum in Washington D.C. (U.S.A.) in 1974 ...
Synonyms: Malus Admiration
Almey
Type: Ornamental
summary: An ornamental crabapple loaded with stunning pink flowers.
Synonyms: Malus baccata ’Almey’
American Beauty Crabapple
American Crabapple
Type: Ornamental
origins: Native to the Great Lakes region of North America.
Synonyms: Sweet Crabapple, Garland Crabapple, Malus coronaria
Ames White
Type: Ornamental
summary: White ornamental crabapple with yellow fruit.
Synonyms: 161-52*B
Amisk
Type: Ornamental
origins: Open pollinated seedling from Malus pumila raised at Canada Department of Agriculture's Central Experimental Farm near Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) in 1920. ...
Amsib Crabapple
Type: Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Moderately juicy and just slightly tart. Fragrant. Not bitter.
Amur
Type: Jelly, Ornamental
origins: A seedling of open pollinated Malus baccata cerasifera raised by Niels Hansen South Dakota State University Agricultural Experiment Station. The cultivar is ...
Amur Red
Type: Jelly, Ornamental
origins: Thought to be an open pollinated seedling of Amur, released by Harold Orchard, Miami, Manitoba (Canada) in 1940.
Ann Trio Crab
Type: Ornamental
summary: Highly showy crabapple tree, but needs to be picked before winter.
Arnold Crab
Type: Ornamental
origins: Developed at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (U.S.A.)
Synonyms: Malus x arnoldiana
Astrachan Crab
Type: Ornamental
origins: An open-pollinated seedling of Red Astrachan, first listed by horticulturalist Liberty Hide Bailey in "Annals of Horticulture in North America for the Years ...
Barbara Ann
Type: Ornamental
origins: Dorethea crossed with Malus purpurea. Developed at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (U.S.A.).
Beauty
Type: Ornamental
summary: An ornamental flowering crab grown from pippins that originated in Russia during the early 1900s.
Bedford
Type: Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, soft. Very juicy but astringent.
Beverly
Black Oxford
Type: Cider, Dessert, Ornamental, Pie
summary: Originating in the northeastern U.S.A., this dark-skinned heritage apple is still grown and appreciated more than two centuries after it was found.
Synonyms: Black Apple, Fourth of July, Gates, Oxford Black, Oxford Pearmain, Rock
Brier
Type: Culinary, Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is yellow. Juicy, sweet, flavourful.
Burford Redflesh
Type: Culinary, Cider, Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is beet-red, juicy and very tart and somewhat bitter. Fruit resists browning when exposed to air.
Synonyms: Clifford, Clifford Red Flesh. Not the same as Burford Red .
