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  • Macoun apple

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    Another McIntosh style apple variety from the famous Geneva Research Station, and considered one of the better ones.
  • Magnum Bonum apple

    Yellow medium size apple with patterns of red.
  • Magnum Gala apple

    Larger apples than Gala.
  • Maiden's Blush apple

    Cooking, dessert and cider apple, also dries well. Flat, round pale yellow-skinned fruit with crimson blush. Crisp, tender flesh with sharp acid flavor that mellows with ripening.
  • Maigold apple

    Crisp, juicy flesh; mildly subacid, sweet flavor. Slightly honeyed, mellowing to a citrus taste in storage. Bruise resistant. Keeps well in storage.
  • Mairac® apple

    A modern Swiss apple, derived from Gala and Maigold and released in 2002.
  • Malinda apple

    Yellow apple with slight taste of pears. Not widely grown today, but parent of many University of Minnesota bred apples.
  • Malling apple

    A synonym for Kent.
  • Maltster apple

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    A 19th century dual-purpose variety, with a very modern red-streaked appearance
  • Mantet apple

    An early-season apple variety from Canada.
  • Marcoun apple

    An old Italian apple variety, with a sweet flavour which keeps very well.
  • Margil apple

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    A very old variety, with a good flavour.
  • McIntosh apple

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    A crisp red apple with bright white flesh and refreshing sweet flavor.
  • McLean apple

    Medium sized attractive pale yellow skinned apple, with a light blush. Flesh is mildly acid, with good quality.
  • McLellan apple

    Light smooth, straw colored fruit, covered with stripes and marblings of lively red. Good sprightly taste of fruit in November. Crisp, firm flesh.
  • Melba apple

    Attractive, high quality, yellow washed with crimson fruit. Very white, firm, crisp, sweet flesh. A sweet subacid flavor.
  • Melon apple

    Fruits very good quality. Medium large, skin yellow, red striped, round, oblate, conical with mild flavor.
  • Melrose apple

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    Official Ohio State apple. Large flattened fruit. Yellowish green skin flushed and streaked dark red with russet spots. Firm, coarse, juicy creamy white flesh. Slightly acid flavor. Very good cooking and dessert qualities. Best after Christmas when it develops it's fruity aroma.
  • Melrouge apple

    Redder sport of Melrose with more intense flavor. An excellent flavored dessert apple. Size is large and roundish flat. Very good for cooking. Stores well.
  • Mendocino Cox apple

    Yellow with red stripes.
  • Meridian apple

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    An attractive well-flavoured modern English apple, difficult to detect the Cox parentage though.
  • Merton Charm apple

    Medium sized flat shaped fruit, rectangular, convex, not ribbed; skin greenish yellow, sometimes with a slight brownish red flush. Flesh tender, crisp, creamy white; flavor sweet subacid.
  • Merton Delight apple

    Size medium, shape intermediate to flat, skin yellow, striped pinkish red. Flesh tender, crisp, creamy. Flavor sweet to subacid.
  • Merton Knave apple

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    An early-season English dessert apple, raised in the mid twentieth century.
  • Merton Prolific apple

    An interesting cross between a cooker (Northern Greening) and a dessert apple (Cox's Orange Pippin).
  • Merton Russet apple

    Small. Golden russet colored. Flesh very crisp, deep yellow, and juicy. Complex sweet/spicy flavor.
  • Merton Worcester apple

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    An interesting early/mid season dessert variety, probably deserves to be better known.
  • Milo Gibson apple

    Red and yellow fruit. A fine tasting apple with unique licorice flavor.
  • Milton apple

    Medium sized, pale yellow covered fruit with deep cherry red flush. Fine grained white flesh. Juicy with sweet hint of raspberry flavors.
  • MN 1734 apple

    Bronze russet fruit. Hard, yellow flesh. Rich flavor. Makes excellent tasting cider.
  • Mollie's Delicious apple

    A very good to excellent early apple ripening. Fruits are large to very large, conical in shape with a pinkish red color. Has an exceptionally pleasing aftertaste. This quality can be maintained in storage for at least 10 weeks under refrigeration.
  • Monarch apple

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    Cooks to juicy puree, not as sharp as Bramley
  • Moore Sweet apple

    Fruit medium to large. Uniform in size and shape. Shape roundish. Skin smooth, rather pale in color, being yellow or greenish overspread with a red or pinkish red blush and dulled by greyish scarfskin. Flesh tinged with yellow or green, moderately firm, moderately fine grained, tender, rather dry, sweet, good.
  • Morgan Sweet apple

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    An old cider apple variety, popular in the "west country" of the UK, and sweet enough to eat fresh.
  • Mother apple

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    An old Massachusetts apple variety rated for its flavor.
  • Mountain Boomer apple

    A huge round apple, some specimens being larger than a saucer. It is a pale yellow with an occasional blush where exposed to the sun. Flavor and texture are exceptional, considering the size of the fruit.
  • Moyer's Spice apple

    A rather large apple of the Yellow Bellflower group: yellow, often blushed with red. Flesh is moderately crisp, coarse, very juicy, mildly subacid, becoming sweet or nearly so. Good to very good in flavor and quality.
  • Muscadet de Dieppe apple

    Excellent cider apple. Orange-red, smallish fruit. Sweet and aromatic.
  • Muscat de Bernay apple

    Hard cider apple
  • Mutsu apple

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    A versatile dual-purpose apple, sharp but still pleasant to eat fresh. Also known as Crispin.

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