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Keeping / storage

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Flavor quality

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Flavor style

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Food uses

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Cooking result

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Discoloration of fruit

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Juice style

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Growing

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Self-fertility

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Flowering group

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Pollinating others

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Ploidy

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Tree vigor

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Precocity

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Bearing regularity

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Fruit bearing

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Climate

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Summer average maximum temperatures

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Frost resistance of blossom

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Chill requirement

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Identification

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Period of origin

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Flesh color

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Fruit color

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Fruit size

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Awards

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Other qualities

Disease resistance

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Bitter pit

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Canker

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Cedar apple rust

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Fire blight

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Powdery mildew

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Scab

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  • Resembles McIntosh in taste, appearance, shape, and flesh. Slightly firmer than McIntosh. Aceymac may be Spartan with new name.
  • Adams's Pearmain
    Classic Victorian 'pearmain' shape apple with a nutty sweet flavour.
  • Medium-sized, yellow-green underecolor with striped red wash. Good dessert quality. The apple name, Adanac, is Canada spelled backwards.
  • Airlie Red Flesh
    A red-fleshed apple variety from the USA, sometimes known as Hidden Rose® or Aerlies Red Flesh.
  • Akane
    One of the best early-season apples, better known in the USA than Europe, but would appeal to European tastes too.
  • An heirloom apple variety from Sweden, quite widely grown in Scandanavia, very handsome fruit.
  • A red skinned form of Gravenstein.
  • An English (possibly Scottish) culinary apple, thought to have originated in the 1920s.
  • An old and attractive culinary apple, cooks to a puree.
  • A large traditional English cooking apple.
  • Alkmene
    A very attractive early Cox-style apple, slightly sharper than Cox, sometimes known as Early Windsor.
  • An old russeted variety from Ireland, and as the name suggests, a good keeper.
  • A versatile English apple, with a strong pineapple-like flavour, useful for both cooking and eating.
  • Almata
    A red-fleshed apple variety.
  • A sweet modern apple variety from western Canada, quite similar to Golden Delicious. Discovered as a chance seedling in an orchard in British Columbia.
  • Amere de Berthencourt
    Amere de Berthencourt is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.
  • An excellent early eating apple, also good for cooking. Medium size, yellow-green fruit is flushed and streaked red to purple red. Sweet, very juicy flesh.
  • Ananas Reinette
    An attractive small yellow apple, with a pineapple-like flavour. Popular in northern Europe.
  • Anna
    A very early season Golden Delicious style apple variety from Israel, noted for its very low chill requirement of less than 300 hours.
  • Annie Elizabeth
    A popular English culinary apple, which keeps its shape when cooked.
  • Antonovka
    A popular small green culinary apple variety from Russia. Also of importance as a rootstock because of its ability to tolerate extreme cold.
  • A culinary apple from the Ukraine, possibly a more colored form of Antonovka.
  • Very unusual oblate (flattened) shape looking like a rounded star from the end. A little larger than the Lady apple. Excellent flavor - aromatic with sufficient acid and a sweet fruity taste.
  • An unusual and little-known apple variety noted for its apricot-like flavor.
  • An old apple variety from Ireland, with a flavor reminiscent of bananas.
  • Argilière
    A mid-season dessert apple from the north of France.
  • A modern French dessert apple variety, with built-in resistance to scab. Ariane is an attractive red/yellow colour and has a pleasant mild apple flavour.
  • Arkansas Black
    A long-keeping tart apple from Arkansas, USA - which goes almost black in storage.
  • A sweet mid-season dessert apple, developed in Switzerland and related to Golden Delicious.
  • An attractive yellow/green apple with some red/orange flush. Shares its name with an old Gloucestershire (UK) pear variety.
  • A modern apple from Sweden, developed during the 1950s.
  • A high quality russet-style variety, sharper than Egremont Russet, with a rich flavour and occasionally a hint of lemon.
  • Arthur Turner
    A well-known early season culinary apple. Cooks to a sweet puree. Grows easily in most situations.
  • An attractive and popular mid-season culinary apple, very versatile in the kitchen, cooks to a puree.
  • Ascahire
    A large reliable dessert apple from northern France with a sharp flavour.
  • Ashmead's Kernel
    A very old apple variety, with a drab appearance which belies a unique peardrop flavour. Ashmead's Kernel is also one of very small number of English apple varieties that also thrives in North America.
  • Bright red blush over yellow-green. Keeps better than Golden Delicious.
  • A traditional late season red dessert apple from northern France.
  • Baguette Violette
    A traditional French late-season eating apple with a good flavor.
  • Distinctly sweet and of very good quality, but not a very good keeper. Skin tender, clear bright yellow largely covered with deep red. Flesh tinged with yellow, firm, moderately juicy, decidedly sweet.
  • Baldwin
    A very popular old American apple variety, widely grown for culinary use, and a good keeper.
  • Large, green with red blush. Coarse, hard flesh. Subacid. Winter keeper, keeping several months without refrigeration. Excellent cooking apple.
  • Bardsey
    Discovered growing on an island off the coast of North Wales, and considered very disease-resistant.
  • Barnack Beauty
    An attractive old English cooking apple.
  • Medium to large fruit with an intense solid dark red skin. Lasts 3 months in storage.
  • Sharp/sweet flavour but fairly bland, quite chewy - looks better than it tastes
  • Baya Marisa
    A modern red-fleshed apple variety with a good flavour, developed in Germany, and also known as Tickled Pink.
  • Beacon is a bright red early-season apple with a soft flesh, noted for its cold hardiness.
  • Fruit is yellow splashed with red. Short storage period.
  • Beauty of Bath
    A popular English garden apple from the Victorian era, one of the first to ripen.
  • An attractive 19th century dessert apple, possibly related to Blenheim Orange
  • Bedan
    Bedan is a traditional French bittersweet cider variety.
  • Large angular cooking apple
  • A relatively unknown English 19th century dessert apple.
  • Belle de Boskoop
    A popular old dual-purpose apple from the Netherlands.
  • Belle Fleur de France
    A traditional large dual-purpose late-season apple from Northern France.
  • Belle Fleur de France Rouge
    A sport or seedling of Belle Fleur de France, with a darker red skin coloration.
  • Belle-Fleur Large Mouche
    A large cooking apple, found mainly in Belgium and northern France.
  • Very good flavored Mac-type.