summary: A favoured cooking apple, holding its shape and texture well for pies, crumbles and crisps. In most areas where this variety is grown, it is encountered as a ...

summary: This culinary apple was grown through the Loire Valley of France, but has become alarmingly scarce.

summary: Please see Yellow Bellflower

summary: A sweet-sharp French cider apple but also used for making a fragrant, lemon yellow sauce and it keeps its shape for making pies and tarts.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and juicy. Sweet, sprightly and aromatic.

summary: A Mac-style apple but more hardy and disease resistant.

characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and fine-grained. Juicy. Sweet and slightly tart with pineapple flavours.

characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, firm. Juicy, sweet and brisk.

characteristics: The flesh is white, very tender, fine textured and juicy. Sweet with wine and strawberry flavours. Sprightly. Very short storage period.

characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Juicy with high sugar content and considerable acidity.

summary: Often called Crow's Egg or Southern Crow's Egg, this tall, oddly shaped apple is an excellent fresh-eating variety that has been grown in the southeastern ...

characteristics: Yellow flesh, juicy. Sweet-sharp, spicy and aromatic.

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.

characteristics: The flesh is white, firm, crisp and fine textured. Juicy, sprightly and aromatic. Keeps up to five months in cold storage.

characteristics: CrispSweet sharp.

summary: This cider apple was found growing in the late 1960s in the Kanton Thurgau of northeastern Switzerland.

summary: A heirloom American apple that lends itself to fresh eating, baking, cider and apple jelly, tends to be cold hardy and keeps well in storage.

characteristics: The flesh is pale cream-coloured, somewhat fine-grained and tender. Juicy, somewhat sweet-tart and aromatic.

summary: Similar in many ways to the Golden Delicious apple, this chance seedling has a somewhat more brisk and tangy flavour.

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 ...

summary: Please also see Api

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, sweet and aromatic. Very sharp and tart with a spreading background sweetness that makes this apple taste like sour honey. It can, ...

characteristics: Crisp and juicy with pale cream flesh. The flavour is sharp and refreshing with a background sweetness. Look for pear-drop flavours.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse-grained and firm. Juicy and tart with a distinct lemony apple flavour.

characteristics: The flesh is snow white. Sweet and a touch tangy. Strawberry flavoured.

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, melting and tender. Juicy, spicy and sprightly. Browns slightly on exposure to air.

summary: A fresh-eating heritage apple from the east coast of the United States. Also makes a flavourful, golden apple sauce. Great in pies.

summary: Similar in appearance, shape and flavour to the Cortland apple. Suitable to small to moderate orchards and does well in farm markets and farm-gate sales.

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp, juicy and sweet. Sprightly.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp, firm. Very acidic.