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Cherry
Bigarreau de Schrecken 
Apple
Queen Cox 
Apple
Granny Smith 
Apple
Rome Beauty 
Apple
Delicious 
SummaryHeart-shaped. Firm, juicy. Good flavour.
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.
One of the most famous and important American apple varieties. The original Delicious has a flavor that many find superior to the numerous sports such as Red Delicious that have been developed from it.

Identification

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

Flesh colour

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

Medium
Very large
Small
Fruit shape

Short-round-conical
Round
Round-conical

Using

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


Cooking result

Keeps shape
Keeps shape

Growing

Bigarreau de Schrecken
Queen Cox
Granny Smith
Rome Beauty
Delicious
Picking




Cropping
Good
Heavy


Vigour
Average growth
Average growth


PollinationFlowering group 2
Flowers Early-Mid 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
Flowering group 4
Flowers Mid-Late season
Self-sterile
Gardening skill
Some skill needed



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

Other

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