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966
Type: apple
Characteristics: Flesh is yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet. Tangy with a intense fruity flavour. Keeps for about five months in cold storage.
Synonyms: American Plat, American Plate, Balgone Golden Pippin, Balgowan, Balgowan Pippin, ...
Adanac
Type: dessert
Characteristics: The flesh is slightly greenish, somewhat coarse-grained and juicy.
Synonyms: Originally known as Jack's Number One.
Ahra
Type: dessert
Characteristics: The flesh is faintly yellow and crisp. Very juicy. Distinctly aromatic, sweet and spicy.
Airlie Red Flesh
Type: dessert
Summary: A red-fleshed apple found as a chance seedling in Oregon State. See also Mountain Rose.
Synonyms: Aerlie, Airlie, Airlie's Red Flesh, Hidden Rose
Alkmene
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Cream-coloured flesh is fine-grained, crisp, juicy and generally dense. Slightly tart. Look for a honeyed flavour. Very aromatic. Brix 12.9.
Synonyms: Alkemene, Early Windsor
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 Cloc ...
Anoka
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is white with greenish stains. Somewhat dry. Sweet-sharp flavour.
Synonyms: Champion Supreme
Arkansas Black
Type: dual
Summary: Originating during the mid-1800s in the American heartland, this seedling of Winesap is an excellent multipurpose apple.
Synonyms: Arkansas, Blacktwig, Mammoth Black Twig, Paragon
Atlas
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is creamy white with some red staining next to the skin. Coarse textured, crisp, and firm. Moderately juicy, brisk and flavourful. Keeps a month or tw ...
Synonyms: Red Atlas
B raud
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is crunchy. Tart and fruity
Synonyms: Beraud, Reinette BŽraud, Reinette dorŽe
Baldwin
Type: dual
Summary: Originated in the 1700s in the northeastern United States of America, this baking apple is also favoured for cider.
Synonyms: Butters, Butter's Apple, Pecker, Red Baldwin Pippin, Steele's Red Winter, Woodpe ...
Battleford
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse grained and crisp. Firm. Sweet tart. Brix 14.5
Beauty of Kent
Type: apple
Characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, tender, juicy and sweet? sharp. Wonderful aromas which develop after the apple has been in storage for a few weeks.
Synonyms: Countess of Warwick, Gadd's Seedling, Kentish Beauty, Kentish Broading, Kentish ...
Belle de Boskoop
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, coarse and firm. Crisp, crunchy, juicy and sweet-sharp right off the tree. Fruity. Aromatic. Very go High Vitamin C content. Brix 12.6, acid ...
Synonyms: Beauty of Boskoop, Belle of Boskoop, Belle de Booskoop, Boskoop, Booskoop and Bo ...
Belle de Tours
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp and firm. Sweet?tart and fragrant.
Belle Fille Normande
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white, tender and dense. Juicy, sweet and slightly tart.
Synonyms: Belle fille du pays de Caux, Dameret, de Damoiselle, Belle fille de livre
Bellefleur de Brabant
Type: culinary
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and juicy. Sweet, sprightly and aromatic.
Synonyms: Belle de Flandres, Belle Fleur Brabant, Bellefleur Simple, Brabant, Brabant Bell ...
Belmac
Type: dessert
Summary: A Mac-style apple
Benoni
Type: apple
Characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and fine grained. Juicy. Sweet with mildly tart with pineapple flavours.
Synonyms: Fail?Me?Never
Bethel
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is yellow, often stained pink next to the skin, somewhat juicy, moderatly tender, coarse textured and slightly dry. Sprightly. Keeps for up to four mo ...
Synonyms: unknown could this be the Bethal???????????????
Betty Geeson
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, firm. Juicy, sweet and brisk.
Beverly Hills
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white, very tender, fine textured and juicy. Sweet with wine and strawberry flavours. Sprightly. Very short storage period.
Synonyms: Beverley Hills
Black Oxford
Type: dual
Characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish white. Sweet-tart
Synonyms: Black Apple, Fourth of July, Gates, Oxford Black, Oxford Pearmain, Rock
Blair
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white, firm, crisp and fine textured. Juicy, sprightly and aromatic. Keeps up to five months in cold storage.
Blanc Dur (Orne)
Type: apple
Characteristics: CrispSweet sharp.
Synonyms: Blanc Dureau, Blandurel
Blue Pearmain
Type: dual
Characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, firm, coarse-grained and somewhat juicy. Aromatic, sweet, spicy and slightly tart.
Blushing Susan
Type: apple
Characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained, crisp and crunchy. Juicy, sweet and sprightly. Slightly pineapple flavoured and aroma. It tends to brown only slightly when ex ...