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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.

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Apples with the use of pie

Granny Smith

Granny Smith

2

Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and coarse-grained. The apple is crisp sweet-sharp and refreshing.

Graue Herbst Renette

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Type: Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce

summary: An excellent apple eaten out of hand, it is also used to make pies and sauce and makes a flavourful apple juice.

Gravenstein

Gravenstein

1

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce

summary: A good, sweet-tart eating apple if fully ripened on the tree. However, it is most commonly used green as a cooking apple for apple pies and sauce, but creates a ...

Green Harvey

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Type: Cooking, Dessert, Pie

characteristics: Sharp. Keeps for three months in cold storage. Greenish yellow.

Greensleeves

Greensleeves

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is cream in colour and coarse textured to a degree. Crisp, juicy, sweet-tart and honeyed. The apple should be used fairly soon after harvest since it ...

Grenadier

Grenadier

1

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Jelly, Pie, Sauce

summary: A tangy cooking and cider apple from the British Isles. Goes well with soft cheeses.

Grifer

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Juice, Pie

characteristics: Flesh is creamy yellow, somewhat coarse in texture, but firm. Juicy with a good sweet-tart balance. Hints of pear and banana and, to some people, a fermented ...

Gros Damelot

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Type: Cooking, Cider, Pie

origins: France in the area of Rennes

Gros Fenouillet Gris

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Type: Dessert, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, fine?grained and tender. Somewhat juicy and sweet, nutty. Almost no acidity. Keeps three months in cold storage.

Gros Hôpital

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie

summary: Please see Reinette de l'Hôpital

Gurney Viking

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Type: Dessert, Pie

summary: This thin-skinned eating apple comes from the South Dakota region of the U.S.A. in the early 1900s and is ideal for fresh eating as well as for pies and tarts. ...

Hackworth

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Type: Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: Once grown extensively in the southern United States as an excellent summer apple for fresh eating, pies and apple sauce, but pre-empted in the mid-1900 by ...

Halberstadter Jungfernapfel

Halberstadter Jungfernapfel

2

Type: Cider, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and soft. Very juicy and sweet and somewhat tart to very tart.

Hambledon Deux Ans

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Type: Cooking, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, coarse grained. Firm and dry. Sweet and flavourful. Brisk.

Hans Ulrichs Apfel

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Type: Cider, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained. Juicy and sweet-tart, but the fruit needs to be matured for up to two months in storage to achieve its full, rich ...

Haralred

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie

summary: Found as a limb mutation of Minnesota 90 in 1982 by Louis Lautz in his orchard near La Crescent, Minnesota (U.S.A.). Ripens up to seven days earlier and with a solid ...

Hardy Collet

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: Please see Collet

Harvest Festival

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Type: Cooking, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is white, soft. Sharp.

Harvey’s Wiltshire Defiance

Harvey’s Wiltshire Defiance

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Jelly, Pie, Sauce

summary: Please see Yellow Transparent

Hauer Pippin

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm, and crunchy. Juicy, sweet tart and spicy with a hint of cloves.

Hazen

Hazen

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie

summary: Developed in the Great Plains of the north-central United States, this late-summer apple grows on a naturally dwarfing tree, topping out at five metres or less.

Heimenhofer

Heimenhofer

1

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Juicy and sweet-tart. Aromatic.

Hercules

Hercules

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: One of several columnar apples developed by the East Malling Institute of Horticultural Research, the Hercules apple forms a compact stem along which the fruit ...

Herefordshire Beefing

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Type: Cooking, Pie

characteristics: Flesh is white with green tinges. Fine grained, firm and crisp, brisk.

Hightop Sweet

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Type: Dessert, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is yellow, tender and dry. Very sweet. Does not keep well.

Hocking's Green

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Type: Cooking, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Sharp. Keeps three months in cold storage.

Hodge’s Seedling

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Type: Cooking, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm, crisp, juicy and sweet?sharp.

Hog Island Sweet

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Type: Eating, Pie

summary: It may have been the name that curtailed this apple's rise to fame, but it is a fine tasting, very sweet baking and fresh-eating cultivar.

Holstein

Holstein

1

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Distinctly cream-coloured flesh, coarse-grained, juicy and noticeably aromatic, typically with pineapple flavours. Excellent sugar/acid balance. Produces ...

Honeygold

Honeygold

1

Type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: This hardy Golden Delicious-style apple was developed by the University of Minnesota in the mid-1900s and ranks high for flavour and long storage.

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