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Apple varieties

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  • Oliver apple

    Waxy golden skin nearly covered with crimson and streaked dark red. Rich, spritely flavor.
  • Ontario apple

    Very good eating, juice and cooking apple. Medium-large fruit with green skin flushed and striped red. Flesh fine textured, very juicy, sprightly and aromatic.
  • Opalescent apple

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    A popular large New England apple, sweet, crunchy, juicy, hint of strawberries - a well-flavoured apple.
  • Orange Sweet apple

    Small, somewhat conical fruit, medium in size. Pale yellow apple often somewhat blushed, nearly orange yellow when ripe. Flesh tinged with yellow, moderately fine grained, tender, moderately sweet. Skin tough.
  • Orenco apple

    High quality eating apple. Almost solidly bright red. Tender, crisp, juicy flesh. Very sweet and piquant flavor.
  • Orin apple

    Yellow skin is blushed red-orange and dotted with conspicuous white lenticels. Sweet, very honeyed, pale yellow flesh, but of little taste or acidity of fruit.
  • Oriole apple

    An early-season American apple from the University of Minnesota.
  • Orkney apple

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    An attractive old apple, probably from Scotland
  • Orleans Reinette apple

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    An old-fashioned 18th century French apple, with a good reputation for flavour, but usually not a good cropper.
  • Ottawa apple

    Very good early eating, cooking and sauce apple. Greenish-yellow washed and striped with red. Juicy and spicy.
  • Ozark Gold apple

    Very similar to Golden Delicious. Flavor is sweet, honeyed, very juicy with little acidity.

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