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.
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
characteristics: The flesh is pale green white, coarse-grained and firm. Juicy, sweet-sharp and aromatic. Over-ripe apples tend to be dry, but very fragrant and flavourful. ...
Synonyms: Black Annie, Black Spitz, Black Spitzenberg, Crow’s Egg (There is also a ...
brix: 15.4
sg: 1.0628
summary: One of about 50 apple cultivars developed under the PRI (Purdue University, Rutgers University and the University of Illinois) programme using Malus floribunda ...
Synonyms: Marketed as Prima, also known as Priestly Prima.
characteristics: Flesh is tender, finely textured, yellowish and crisp. Well balanced sweetness and tartness. Savoury and spicy. The fruit is stellar when allowed to ripen fully ...
Synonyms: Graasten, Grafenapfel, Gravenstein, Gravensteiner, Grafensteiner, Banks Red, ...
brix: 11.5
sg: 1.0462
characteristics: Flesh is juicy, crisp and tender with a distinct tart flavour. Tends to be sweet. Look for a spicy character in the flavour with just a hint of coriander, this ...
Synonyms: Golden Pippin, Grimes, Grimes Golden Pippin
characteristics: Flesh is creamy-yellow, fine-grained, tender and crisp. Juicy. Brisk and refreshing when first picked, maturing in storage, but it tends to go mealy if left to ...
Synonyms: Baroveski, Borovinka, Borovitsky, Borowitsky, Charlamovka, Charlamowiski, ...
brix: 12.7
sg: 1.0513
summary: Sweet eating apple, holds its shape well when cooked. For apple sauce, depending on individual taste, the amount of added sugar can be halved or even ...
Synonyms: Annit Apple, Arany Delicious, Mullins' Seedling, Mullins' Yellow Seedling, Stark ...
brix: 13.9
sg: 1.0564
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
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, fine-grained, crisp and juicy. Somewhat tart, very aromatic and distinctly spicy. Look for honey, pear and citrus notes and a ...
Synonyms: Connecticut Seek-No-Farther (this is also a synonym for Yellow Bellflower), ...
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
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
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 ), ...
summary: A multipurpose apple mostly grown in the gardens of rural France.
Synonyms: a Paquets, Sucrevert, Surre
summary: Originating in Italy, this large, fresh-eating apple offers a refreshing sweet-tart flavour.
Synonyms: Belfort
brix: 11.9
sg: 1.0479
summary: Similar to the iconic McIntosh in taste and colour, but larger in size and firmer in texture.
Synonyms: Buhr McIntosh
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm. Juicy and sweet-tart.
Synonyms: Garden Beauty
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
characteristics: Flesh is white with a faint tinge of yellow. Coarse texture. Juicy and sweet with winey flavours.. Sweet when eaten fresh, otherwise quite sharp.
Synonyms: Albertin, Alexander the First, Aport, Calville Alexandre, Emperor Alexander, ...
summary: No longer widely grown, but lives on as a popular garden variety in Britain. Great for apple jelly.
Synonyms: Alfreston, Alfristan, Freen Grove, Green Goose, Lord Gwydyr's Pippin, Lord ...
characteristics: Very sweet, dry some years and very juicy other years. Flavours tend to be somewhat bland.
summary: This red-fleshed apple makes great apple sauce, crabapple jelly and has also caught the attention of cider makers.
Synonyms: Alma Ata
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Intense flavour.
Synonyms: Altlander Fettapfel
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured and crisp. Sharp and fruity.
Synonyms: Altlander, Altlander pfannkuchenapfel, Altländer, Echter Altländer ...
characteristics: The flesh is tan coloured, coarse-grained, soft. Dry and acidic.
characteristics: The flesh is cream white, firm, juicy. The flavour is sweet and sprightly when the fruit is allowed to ripen on the tree. Requires careful monitoring since it ...
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse-grained and tender. Moderately juicy, slightly brisk and quite aromatic. Allow the fruit to mature to a yellow colour for ...
Synonyms: Antenovka, Antoni, Antonovca, Antonovka obiknovennaia, Antonovka obyknovennaya, ...
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine grained, crunchy and sweet-tart. Aromatic.
Synonyms: Star Apple, Sternapfel, Pentagone, Pentagonale, Longue queue. Sometimes also ...
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.
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
characteristics: The flesh is pale cream in colour and coarse-grained. Dry and sharp.
Synonyms: Turner's Prolific
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine?grained and crisp. Very juicy and tart.
Synonyms: A.W. Barnes
summary: A sweet-tart, refreshing apple that also makes excellent apple sauce and provides tartness and sugars for cider blends.
Synonyms: Ashmead, Aschmead’s Kernel, Aschmead’s Seedling, Ashmead’s Seedling, ...
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
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, often with reddish stains under the skin. Firm, very crisp, juicy and sweet. Resistant to browning when cut open.
brix: 13
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Sweet and pleasantly tart.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Sharp, but intensely flavoured.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse?grained, firm and crisp. Acidic.
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 ...