Directory of apple varieties starting with C

Calville Blanc d'Hiver apple

The perfect choice for tarte aux pommes, its spicy aromatic flavor makes it one of the world's top culinary apples.

Calville Rouge d'Automne apple

Large, with characteristic ribbed shape. Skin pale red with a tinge of yellow. Sweet, slight strawberry flavor with tender, juicy flesh. Good fresh and for baked apples, keeps its form with a smooth creamy texture.

Cameo apple

A modern sweet variety, reminscent of Red Delicious.

Campfield apple

A cider apple of medium size. Skin is smooth and red, with small indistinct yellow spots and side away from the sun is typically greenish yellow. The flesh is white, firm, sweet and rich. Form is round, flattened and somewhat sunk at the ends.

Candy Crisp® apple

Glossy yellow, and generally russet free apple with an extremely mild, somewhat pear-like flavor. Large, conical fruits is occasionally blushed with soft pink.

Captain Kidd apple

Streaked bright red. Very good flavor, very sweet, juicy.

Cardinal Von Galen apple

Cooking and juice apple. Large, bright red fruit.

Carlos Queen apple

Large, green with red blush.

Carmeliter Reinette apple

Medium-sized, golden fruit flushed red and russeted. Sweet and aromatic.

Carolina Red June apple

A synonym for Red June.

Carroll apple

Excellent eating apple, also for cooking.

Catshead apple

An ancient English apple, cooks to sharp firm puree.

Cellini apple

An unusual Victorian variety, primarily a culinary apple but can be eaten fresh. One of the best examples of the aniseed component of apple flavours.

Charden apple

A modern French apple derived from Golden Delicious but with better disease resistance.

Charles Ross apple

Handsome, juicy, versatile English classic - good for old-fashioned English cooking.

Cheddar Cross apple

Medium in size, flattened shape, and indistinctly ribbed at the eye and on the body. The skin is green and covered with russet. The creamy white finely textured flesh is subacid to slightly sweet in flavor. Savory with mellow acidity; crisp, juicy.

Cheerfull Gold apple

A modern English apple variety, derived from Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious.

Chehalis apple

Large greenish yellow apple, usually with a pink blush on exposed side. Resembles Golden Delicious in looks and flavor but larger, crisper and more elongated. Crisp, cream colored flesh. Medium-fine texture. Sweet, slightly honeyed, juicy eating and baking apple.

Chenango Strawberry apple

Medium to large fruit smooth, yellowish or greenish-white skin striped with crimson. Flesh juicy, mildly subacid, aromatic with a hint of strawberries. Skin smooth and tough. Pick when skin starts to turn milky.

Cherry Cox apple

Often shows dark red stripes and splashes of the solid red fruit. Keeps in storage one month longer than others of it's type.

Chestnut Crab apple

Large cooking and dessert crab apple. Attractive, reddish bronze fruit. Crisp, juicy sweet flesh with a pleasing nut-like flavor. Ripens over a long period.

Chieftain apple

Fruits are medium in size, round, and bright red. Flesh firm, juicy, white. Flavor subacid, milder than Jonathan but more sprightly than Delicious. Dual purpose, high quality. Keeps well.

Chinook apple

Small. Cherry red blush over yellow. Outstanding dessert quality. Very long keeper.

Chisel Jersey apple

Cider apple. Fruit green with red flush. Bittersweet flavor.

Chivers Delight apple

Delightful, easy-going apple, sweet, juicy, crunchy - and some aromatic qualities

Christmas Pearmain apple

Nice apple flavour, sweet but with refreshing sharpness, firm rather than crunchy

Christmas Pippin apple

A modern Cox-style variety, found growing by a roadside.

Cinnamon Spice apple

Medium sized apple, dark red with some yellow background color. Cinnamon flavored.

Claygate Pearmain apple

A popular Victorian dessert apple, named after the village where it was discovered.

Cockpit Improved apple

A Yorkshire cooker, cooks to a sweet puree. An improved version of the original Cockpit.

Coeur de Boeuf apple

Another ancient French cooker, cooks to lemon coloured sweet puree

Cole's Quince apple

Cooking apple in July, eating apple when ripe. Large, ribbed yellow fruit with a firm red juicy flesh. Mild, rich quince flavor and aroma. Very rare.

Connell Red apple

Very productive, very hardy, large dark red high quality eating apple. Connell Red is a gorgeous Fireside type. A good late keeping apple for northern areas.

Cornish Aromatic apple

Old-fashioned variety from Cornwall, some pineapple flavours, very enjoyable

Cornish Gilliflower apple

An important English apple of the Victorian era, with a good sweet aromatic flavour.

Cortland apple

One of the more successful McIntosh offspring, with all the usual characteristics, including the sweet vinous flavour.

Court Of Wick apple

Small to medium. Conical. Golden yellow skin, blushed red and spotted with russet. Flavor is strong and fruity.

Court Pendu Plat apple

Ancient French dessert variety, rich intense unique flavour

Cox Queen apple

A synonym for Queen Cox.

Cox's Orange Pippin apple

This is the benchmark for flavor in apples - from a good tree in a good year it can achieve exceptional flavor.

Crawley Beauty apple

Primarily a culinary variety, cooks to a puree with a delicate apple flavour - but can be eaten fresh after storing. Good disease resistance and tolerates a wide range of soil types.

Creston apple

Does not color well. Softens in storage. Greasy skin.

Crimson Crisp apple

Small to medium. Very bright mid-range red over yellow. Extremely crisp. Very good, rich flavor. Moderately acid, spicy.

Cripps Pink apple

A synonym for Pink Lady®.

Cripps Red apple

A synonym for Sundowner®.

Crispin apple

A synonym for Mutsu.

Criterion apple

Larger fruit with dark red skin underlaid with stripes. Crisp pure white flesh resists browning when cut. Tart tangy flavor. Dessert quality. Excellent for eating out of hand, cooking, and cider.

Crofton apple

Red Delicious shape, Yellow Delicious character. Yellowish green skin with a beautiful distinctive reddish pink blush. Mildly sweet flesh. Good for fresh eating, cooking, freezing, drying.

Cybele apple

An excellent new variety from France - sweet, crisp, juicy - one of the best mid-season varieties.

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