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.
Origins: Native to the Great Lakes region of North America.
Synonyms: Sweet Crabapple, Garland Crabapple, Malus coronaria
Characteristics: Light cream. Moderately fine-grained. Very juicy, sour and lightly astringent.
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.
Characteristics: The flesh is dark red under the skin and cream close to the core. Fine grained and tender. Tart, somewhat astringent and dry. Browns quickly when exposed to air ...
Characteristics: The flesh is very sour.
Synonyms: Malus baccata, Chinese crab, Manchurian crab
Summary: Ornamental tree. Blooms very late.
Synonyms: Florentine crabapple
Characteristics: The flesh is very acidic, but can be eaten both raw and cooked.
Synonyms: Oregon crabapple, Pacific crabapple
Characteristics: The flesh is yellow. Very juicy and astringent.
Synonyms: Hall crabapple
Characteristics: The flesh is white and firm. Astringent.
Synonyms: Iowa Crab, Prairie Crab, Texas Crab
Summary: An edible crabapple, though primarily ornamental.
Characteristics: The flesh is white and sharp, sour.
Synonyms: American crabapple, Garland crab, Sweet crabapple
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'
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
Summary: An ornamental crabapple loaded with stunning pink flowers.
Synonyms: Malus baccata ’Almey’
Origins: USA
Synonyms: Malus ’American Beauty’
Origins: Native to the Great Lakes region of North America.
Synonyms: Sweet Crabapple, Garland Crabapple, Malus coronaria
Summary: White ornamental crabapple with yellow fruit.
Synonyms: 161-52*B
Origins: Open pollinated seedling from Malus pumila raised at Canada Department of Agriculture's Central Experimental Farm near Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) in 1920. ...
Characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Moderately juicy and just slightly tart. Fragrant. Not bitter.
Origins: A seedling of open pollinated Malus baccata cerasifera raised by Niels Hansen South Dakota State University Agricultural Experiment Station. The cultivar is ...
Origins: Thought to be an open pollinated seedling of Amur, released by Harold Orchard, Miami, Manitoba (Canada) in 1940.
Summary: Highly showy crabapple tree, but needs to be picked before winter.
Origins: Developed at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (U.S.A.)
Synonyms: Malus x arnoldiana
Origins: Open pollinated Red Astrachan Canada.
Origins: USA
Origins: Dorethea crossed with Malus purpurea. Developed at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (U.S.A.).
Origins: USA
Summary: An ornamental flowering crab grown from pippins that originated in Russia during the early 1900s.
Characteristics: The flesh is yellow, soft. Very juicy but astringent.
Synonyms: Malus ’Beverly’
Origins: USA
Origins: USA
Synonyms: Malus ’Branzam’ (Brandywine)
Characteristics: The flesh is yellow. Juicy, sweet, flavourful.
Origins: Malus toringoides USA
Origins: USA
Origins: malus sieboldii U.S.A.
Characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm. Dry and rather tart.
Characteristics: The flesh is red sweet
Synonyms: Malus ‘Cardinal'
Origins: USA