Directory of apple varieties starting with R

Rajka apple

A modern variety from the Czech Republic, bred specifically for disease resistance.

Rall's Janet apple

Pleasant flavor, flesh like McIntosh. Juicy.

Red apple of good size and very good quality. In season from mid-autumn to mid-winter. Skin thin, rather tough, smooth yellow nearly overspread with an attractive dark red with a blue bloom. Flesh tinged with yellow firm, fine, tender, juicy, very sweet, quality good to very good.

Raritan apple

Red, good quality. Becomes sweet when allowed to ripen fully.

Razor Russet apple

A great russet apple with excellent flavor. Medium sized with golden bronze skin, almost entirely covered with a yellowish brown russet. Flesh is firm, slightly coarse yellowish white. Remarkable for its sugar content. Great for fresh eating and for cooking.

Red Alkmene apple

A synonym for Red Windsor.

Red Astrachan apple

Eating, cooking and cider apple. Medium sized, crimson colored, flesh is juicy, tart and crisp with good flavor. Very short storage.

Red Baron apple

Medium size. Coarse, dryish flesh. Pear-flavored. Acceptable mild (non-tart) cooking apple. Not very juicy. Orange blush over yellow, resembling traditional peach coloring.

Red Berlepsch apple

Crisp, juicy, aromatic and fine-textured white flesh with a high Vitamin C content.

Red Bietigheimer apple

Large fruit is pale yellow to green overlaid with red. Firm, juicy white flesh is coarse and crisp with subacid flavor.

Red Bouquet Delicious apple

Fruit has dark red skin. Flesh is crisper and has better flavor than regular Red Delicious.

Red Delicious apple

One of the most famous American apple varieties, a sport of Delicious, known for its bright red color.

Red Devil apple

Red Devil is an attractive modern English mid-season apple, developed by the influential English apple enthusiast Hugh Ermen. It is notable for its attractive pink juice.

Red Falstaff apple

A red-coloured sport of Falstaff, a popular garden apple tree.

Red Gold apple

This one gets a blue ribbon for being the sweetest tasting apple ever developed. Keeps for weeks in the refrigerator.

Red Gravenstein apple

Similar to Gravenstein but less tart.

Red Jonaprince apple

A synonym for Red Prince.

Red Jonathan apple

A more deeply colored sport of the original Jonathan, with similar good flavor and keeping qualities.

Red June apple

Classic southern apple prized for over a century as a good tasting early apple.

Red Pippin apple

A synonym for Fiesta.

Red Prince apple

A deep red sweet apple. Unusually for a modern commercial apple Red Prince arose the old-fashioned way, discovered growing as a chance seedling in an orchard in 1994.

Red Rome apple

A redder-colored sport of Rome Beauty.

Red Royal Limbertwig apple

One of the best for eating fresh, for apple butter, and cider - an all purpose apple. Apple is large, round, and some will be a bit conical. Red and greenish yellow with stripe and white dots. Very aromatic, firm, and crisp, very rich unusual pleasing taste.

Red Sauce apple

As the name suggests, notable for its pink-stained flesh and resulting pink juice.

Red Windsor apple

A red sport of Alkmene, with the same strong Cox-style flavour, but with a distinctly different appearance. Also known as Sweet Lilibet.

Red Winesap apple

Medium size apple, with a thick red skin and crisp, crunchy, and juicy flesh.

Redcort apple

Crisp sweet apple that is good for eating and cooking. Similar to a Cortland.

Redfield apple

Medium to large apple. Dark red with dark red flesh. Juice is red. Not for fresh eating.

Redfree apple

Medium size, glossy fruit with 90% bright red color. Smooth, waxy, russet-free skin. Light flesh is crisp and juicy.

Redsleeves apple

Red flushed, smooth skinned, dessert variety. Sweet, lightly aromatic, crisp, juicy flesh; can be weakly flavored.

Redwell apple

Large, well colored fruit; red over yellow skin. Cream colored flesh. Mild, excellent flavor. Keeps until January in storage.

Regent apple

Medium size fruit. Bright red over yellow. Very pleasing flavor and texture. Honeyed, plenty of acidity, crisp, crackling, juicy flesh. Cooked keeps shape, light flavor, sweet, fruity. Delicately flavored. Fruits store into the winter.

Reine des Reinettes apple

A synonym for King of the Pippins.

Reinette du Canada apple

An old French russet variety, and remains the definitive French russet variety. Also known as Reinette Blanche du Canada.

Reinette Grise du Canada apple

A more russeted form of the popular Reinette du Canada. Grown commercially in France and Italy.

Reinette Russet apple

Larger than Golden Russet. Pleasant, very sweet flavor. Brownish yellow with faint red stripes on sunny side. Prominent lenticels. Picks 1 to 2 weeks earlier than Golden Russet

Retina apple

Light pink-orange over green-yellow. Long conical shape.

Reverand Morgan apple

Pinkish red colored skin with good quality fruit. Superb flavor and texture.

Reverend W Wilks apple

Good early cooker, and easy to grow.

Revival apple

Large, orange-yellow with red stripes, crisp and very good taste, looks like Red Delicious and Winter Banana, better than either parent.

Rhode Island Greening apple

One of the oldest American varieties, known since the 1650s, and widely planted in the USA. Its main use is in cooking.

Ribston Pippin apple

Famous Yorkshire apple variety, probably the parent of Cox's Orange Pippin.

Richared apple

Only fair color (blush), but better tasting than most modern strains. Flavor is rich and complex, with hint of coconut. Shape is bloated compared to Delicious, with wide middle.

Richelieu apple

Medium size. Attractive, juicy, crisp. Very good flavor. Mild to subacid with high sugar and aroma.

Rocket Red Braeburn apple

Very intense red blush with narrow, intense stripes.

Rome Beauty apple

An extremely attractive and productive red cooking apple, widely-grown in North America.

Rosette apple

An early-season pink-fleshed apple variety, similar to Discovery.

Rouville apple

Red over pale green-yellow. Oblate. Juicy.

Roxbury Russet apple

Probably the first apple variety originating in North America, as a seedling from a variety brought from Europe by early settlers.

Royal Empire apple

Distinctly redder than fruit from standard Empire, with 90% of the surface covered with dark purplish and red stripes. Taste is similar to Empire.

Royal Gala apple

Orange-red sweet, crisp medium-size fruit.

Royal Russet apple

Large and characteristic russet skin is brown with a greenish-yellow undercast. The yellow flesh has a sweet, nut-like flavor.

Royal Somerset apple

A culinary apple from Somerset, keeps well, and widely-used for making cider. Described by the 19th century writer Hogg as "very excellent".

Rubens (UK NFC) apple

A dry and fairly soft apple with a noticeable hint of bananas, and a very attractive old-fashioned appearance.

Rubens® apple

An attractive modern apple from Italy which is now being promoted in European supermarkets.

Rubinette apple

If any variety can claim to better the English Cox's Orange Pippin, this is it. Its unassuming appearance hides what is probably the best sweet/sharp balance of any apple. If you are serious about apples you have to try Rubinette.

Rubinola apple

Medium to large. Attractive, bright red skin. Yellow, firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh. Very good sweet flavor. Aromatic.

Ruby Jon apple

Creamy, white flesh and crisp, juicy eating quality similar to old-fashioned Jonathan, with 100% Jonathan flavor and size.

Runkel apple

Medium to large. Pink over green-yellow. Smooth and waxy with pronounced lenticels. Sweet, rich flavor. Very juicy, fairly crisp.

Rusty Coat apple

Darker than Golden Russet with drier flesh. Very good flavor, excellent for drying, sauce and eating.

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