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Arkansas Black
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie, Sauce
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
Baldwin
Type: Cooking, Cider, Eating, Pie
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, ...
brix: 15.5
sg: 1.0632
tannins: 6
Granny Smith
Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and coarse-grained. The apple is crisp sweet-sharp and refreshing.
Synonyms: Smith's Seedling, Granny Smith's Seedling
Gravenstein
Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice, Pie, Sauce
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 ...
Synonyms: Graasten, Grafenapfel, Gravenstein, Gravensteiner, Grafensteiner, Banks Red, ...
brix: 11.5
sg: 1.0462
MN 1711
Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: Cream-coloured flesh. Very crisp and breaking, coarse-grained, juicy with a sweet-tart taste. Sometimes a hint of pear drop, but Honeycrisp apples from the ...
Synonyms: Honeycrisp. Honey Crisp, Honeycrunch in Europe. Tested as MN 1711.
Crimson Gold
Type: Dessert, Juice, Pie
characteristics: Crisp and crunchy. Spicy and slightly tangy.
Synonyms: Originally called Little Rosybloom by breeder Albert Etter.
King of the Pippins
Type: Cider, Dessert, Pie
summary: See also Reine des Reinettes .
Synonyms: Gold Winter Pearmain, Golden Pearmain, Golden Winter Pearmain, Reine de ...
Tolman Sweet
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Moderately juicy, sometimes rather dry, very sweet, tart. Bruises easily.
Synonyms: Brown's Golden Sweet, Tallman Sweeting, Tolman's Sweet, Tolman's Sweeting, ...
brix: 14.6
sg: 1.0594
White Winter Pearmain
Type: Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce
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
Northern Spy
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and moderately sweet. Flavour is quite sweet-tart. Browns slowly when the flesh is exposed to air.
Synonyms: Green Peak Spy, Northern Pie Apple, Spy, Red Spy, Red Northern Spy, King, ...
brix: 14
sg: 1.0568
Yellow Bellflower
Type: Culinary, Cider, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained and firm. Juicy and aromatic. Sweet-sharp. Acidity is considered sprightly in a ripe apple but distinctly tart if not fully ...
Synonyms: Bell Flower, Belle Flavoise (incorrectly, see Belle Flavoise ), Bellflower, Bishop's ...
brix: 13.6
Gloria Mundi
Type: Culinary, Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: Flesh is creamy white with tinges of green just under the skin. Coarse-grained, soft and dry. Distinctly tart when eaten fresh but becomes quite sweet with ...
Synonyms: American Gloria Mundi, American Mammoth, Baltimore (also synonym for Mère de Ménage ), ...
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Abbondanza
Type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating, Juice, Pie
summary: Originating in Italy, this large, fresh-eating apple offers a refreshing sweet-tart flavour.
Synonyms: Belfort
brix: 11.9
sg: 1.0479
Adanac
Type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is slightly greenish, somewhat coarse-grained and juicy.
Synonyms: Originally known as Jack's Number One.
Ahra
Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is faintly yellow and crisp. Very juicy. Distinctly aromatic, sweet and spicy.
Airlie Red Flesh
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Jelly, Pie, Sauce
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
Albury Park Nonsuch
Alkmene
Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie
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
brix: 12.9
sg: 1.0521
Ananas Reinette
Type: Dessert, Juice, Pie
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, Eating, Juice, Pie
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 ...
Synonyms: Ananas, Red Pineapple, Roter Ananasapfel. Note that the Ananas Reinette and ...
Anoka
Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is white with greenish stains. Somewhat dry. Sweet-sharp flavour.
Synonyms: Champion Supreme
Arends
Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, medium-grained, crisp and firm. Juicy, sweet-tart, winey and strawberry flavours.
Synonyms: Marketed as Paulared and Paula Red. Often called Early Mac.
Arkansas Black
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie, Sauce
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
Arlet
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, fine textured and firm, Very juicy, sweet and somewhat tart. Excellent pineapple flavour with hints of melon and cane sugar. Brix ...
Synonyms: Swiss Gourmet
brix: 12.5
sg: 1.0504
Atlas
Type: Eating, Pie, Sauce
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 ...
Synonyms: Red Atlas
Baldwin
Type: Cooking, Cider, Eating, Pie
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, ...
brix: 15.5
sg: 1.0632
tannins: 6
Barry
Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, often stained red next to the skin. Coarse-grained, somewhat firm. Juicy, sweet- tart and slightly aromatic.
Battleford
Type: Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse grained and crisp. Firm. Sweet tart. Brix 14.5
brix: 14.5
sg: 1.0589
Beauty of Kent
Type: Cooking, Pie, Sauce
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: Cooking, Cider, Dessert, Pie
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, coarse-grained and firm. Crisp, crunchy, juicy and sweet-sharp right off the tree. Fruity. Aromatic. Very good. High Vitamin C content. When ...
Synonyms: Beauty of Boskoop, Belle of Boskoop, Belle de Booskoop, Boskoop, Booskoop and ...
brix: 12.6
sg: 1.0509
Belle de Tours
Type: Cooking, Culinary, Pie
summary: This culinary apple was grown through the Loire Valley of France, but has become alarmingly scarce.
Belle Fille Normande
Type: Cider, Pie, Sauce
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: Cooking, Culinary, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and juicy. Sweet, sprightly and aromatic.
Synonyms: Belle de Flandres, Belle Fleur Brabant, Bellefleur Simple, Brabant, Brabant ...
Benoni
Type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating, Pie
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and fine-grained. Juicy. Sweet and slightly tart with pineapple flavours.
Synonyms: Fail-Me-Never
Bethel
Type: Eating, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, often stained pink next to the skin, moderately tender, coarse-grained and slightly dry. Sprightly.
Betty Geeson
Type: Cooking, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, firm. Juicy, sweet and brisk.
Beverly Hills
Type: Eating, Pie, Sauce
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
Bittenfelder
Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Juicy with high sugar content and considerable acidity.
Synonyms: Bittenfelder Seedling
brix: 13.8
sg: 1.0559
Black Limbertwig
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: Yellow flesh, juicy. Sweet-sharp, spicy and aromatic.
Synonyms: Old Fashion Limbertwig
Black Oxford
Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish white. Sweet-tart
Synonyms: Black Apple, Fourth of July, Gates, Oxford Black, Oxford Pearmain, Rock
Blair
Type: Eating, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm, crisp and fine textured. Juicy, sprightly and aromatic. Keeps up to five months in cold storage.