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Cherry
Bigarreau de Schrecken 
Apple
Beacon 
Apple
Queen Cox 
Apple
Granny Smith 
Apple
Rome Beauty 
SummaryHeart-shaped. Firm, juicy. Good flavour.
Beacon is a bright red early-season apple with a soft flesh, noted for its cold hardiness.
A popular self-fertile sport of Cox's Orange Pippin, similar excellent flavour but slightly easier to grow.
The most instantly-recognised of all apples, and perhaps Australia's most famous export.
An extremely attractive and productive red cooking apple, widely-grown in North America.

Identification

Bigarreau de Schrecken
Beacon
Queen Cox
Granny Smith
Rome Beauty
Fruit colourBlack
Red
Red / Orange flush
Green
Red
Flesh colour


White to Greenish to Greenish Yellow
White to Cream, pale yellow
Fruit size


Medium
Very large
Fruit shape


Short-round-conical
Round

Using

Bigarreau de Schrecken
Beacon
Queen Cox
Granny Smith
Rome Beauty
Flavor
Average
Exceptional
Very good
Good
Flavour style
Sharper
Aromatic
Sharper
Sweet/Sharp
Ripening periodEarly-Mid season
Mid-Late season
Mid season
Mid season
Late season
Use/Keeping
1 week
1-2 months
3 months or more

Cooking result


Keeps shape
Keeps shape

Growing

Bigarreau de Schrecken
Beacon
Queen Cox
Granny Smith
Rome Beauty
Picking




Cropping

Good
Heavy

Vigour
Slightly large
Average growth
Average growth

PollinationFlowering group 2
Flowers Early-Mid season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 4
Flowers Mid-Late season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 3
Flowers Mid season
Self-fertile
Flowering group 3
Flowers Mid season
Self-fertile
Flowering group 5
Flowers Late season
Self-fertile
Gardening skill
Very easy
Some skill needed


ProblemsCanker - Very susceptible
Fruit splitting - Very susceptible
Fireblight - Very susceptible
Cedar apple rust - Some susceptibility
Canker - Some susceptibility
Scab - Some susceptibility
Mildew - Some susceptibility
Cedar apple rust - Some susceptibility
Scab - Some susceptibility
Mildew - Some susceptibility
Fireblight - Some susceptibility
Woolly aphid - Some susceptibility
Cedar apple rust - Some resistance
Fireblight - Very susceptible
Cedar apple rust - Very susceptible

Other

Bigarreau de Schrecken
Beacon
Queen Cox
Granny Smith
Rome Beauty
Country of originUnited Kingdom
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
United States
Other qualities