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Apples
Crab-apples
Apricots
Cherries
Flowering cherries
Peaches
Plums
Pears
Using
Picking season
Very early
16
Early
51
Mid
65
Late
213
Very late
45
Keeping / storage
Does not keep
3
1-3 days
13
1 week
44
2-3 weeks
68
1-2 months
114
3 months or more
118
Flavor quality
Exceptional
10
Very good
168
Good
170
Average
37
Flavor style
Sweet/Sharp
113
Sharper
92
Sweeter
87
Aromatic
72
Vinous
8
Aniseed
Dry / nutty
2
Honeyed
14
Pear drop
3
Pineapple
2
Strawberry
3
Food uses
Eating fresh
308
Culinary
176
Traditional cooker
41
Dual purpose
24
Juice
135
Hard cider
62
Drying
25
Cooking result
Puree
33
Textured puree
14
Keeps shape
37
Discoloration of fruit
No discoloration (Good for drying)
35
Slightly oxidising (browns slowly)
23
Oxidising
53
Very oxidising (browns quickly)
16
Juice style
Sweeter
23
Sharper
24
Sweet (cider)
4
Sharp (cider)
2
Bittersweet (cider)
21
Bittersharp (cider)
4
Growing
Gardening skill
Beginner
114
Average
172
Experienced
22
Self-fertility
Self-fertile
23
Partially self-fertile
45
Not self-fertile
352
Flowering group
1
13
2
62
3
189
4
113
5
26
6
12
Pollinating others
Good
24
Average
204
Poor
77
Ploidy
Diploid
332
Triploid
64
Tetraploid
1
Other
1
Tree vigor
Natural dwarf
Weak growing
26
Slightly small
32
Average vigour
187
Slightly large
48
Vigorous
63
Very vigorous
3
Precocity
Precocious
90
Slow to start bearing
21
Bearing regularity
Regular
213
Biennial tendency
66
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
268
Free-spurring
3
Partial tip-bearer
44
Tip-bearer
16
Climate
Cold hardiness (USDA)
Zone 3 (-40C)
10
Zone 4 (-34C)
51
Zone 5 (-29C)
67
Zone 6 (-23C)
23
Zone 7 (-18C)
23
Zone 8 (-12C)
23
Zone 9 (-7C)
13
Zone 10 (-1C)
10
Summer average maximum temperatures
Cold (< 20C / 67F)
86
Cool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)
264
Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
155
Hot (>30C / 86F)
29
Frost resistance of blossom
Good resistance
31
Some resistance
10
Susceptible
13
Chill requirement
Low-chill
21
High-chill
5
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
9
Austria
1
Bahamas
1
Belgium
15
Canada
40
Czech Republic
5
Denmark
5
France
53
Germany
19
Ireland
6
Israel
2
Italy
5
Japan
14
Netherlands
13
New Zealand
16
Russia
8
Sweden
3
Switzerland
10
Turkey
1
Ukraine
2
United Kingdom
197
United States
217
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1
1600 - 1649
8
1650 - 1699
5
1700 - 1749
5
1750 - 1799
19
1800 - 1849
57
1850 - 1899
46
1900 - 1949
74
1950 - 1999
89
2000
21
Flesh color
White
45
Cream
25
Golden / Yellow
3
Orange
1
Pink / Red
10
Dark red
1
Light green / Yellow
1
Fruit color
Brown
2
Crimson
17
Gold
1
Green
21
Green - light
11
Green / Red
21
Green / Yellow
20
Orange
2
Orange / Red
39
Orange flush
51
Pink
5
Red
62
Red - dark
12
Red / Green
24
Red striped
3
Russet
21
Yellow
5
Yellow / Orange
16
Yellow / Red
1
Fruit size
Very small
1
Small
25
Average
78
Large
60
Very large
12
Variable
13
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
44
RHS AGM (former)
9
RHS AM
5
RHS 1st class
2
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
3
Other qualities
Disease resistance
Good
129
Average
120
Poor
25
Bitter pit
Very resistant
5
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
14
Very susceptible
Canker
Very resistant
7
Some resistance
26
Some susceptibility
33
Very susceptible
3
Cedar apple rust
Very resistant
15
Some resistance
27
Some susceptibility
24
Very susceptible
9
Fire blight
Very resistant
7
Some resistance
35
Some susceptibility
47
Very susceptible
15
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
10
Some resistance
57
Some susceptibility
45
Very susceptible
2
Scab
Very resistant
61
Some resistance
60
Some susceptibility
60
Very susceptible
11
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Varieties list
Red Bietigheimer
Large fruit is pale yellow to green overlaid with red. Firm, juicy white flesh is coarse and crisp with subacid flavor.
Red Bouquet Delicious
Fruit has dark red skin. Flesh is crisper and has better flavor than regular Red Delicious.
Red Delicious
One of the most famous American apple varieties, a sport of Delicious, known for its bright red color.
Red Devil
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
A red-coloured sport of Falstaff, a popular garden apple tree.
Red Gold
This one gets a blue ribbon for being the sweetest tasting apple ever developed. Keeps for weeks in the refrigerator.
Red Gravenstein
Similar to Gravenstein but less tart.
Red Jonathan
A more deeply colored sport of the original Jonathan, with similar good flavor and keeping qualities.
Red June
Classic southern apple prized for over a century as a good tasting early apple.
Red Prince
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
A redder-colored sport of Rome Beauty.
Red Royal Limbertwig
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
As the name suggests, notable for its pink-stained flesh and resulting pink juice.
Red Windsor
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
Medium size apple, with a thick red skin and crisp, crunchy, and juicy flesh.
Redcort
Crisp sweet apple that is good for eating and cooking. Similar to a Cortland.
Redfield
Medium to large apple. Dark red with dark red flesh. Juice is red. Not for fresh eating.
Redfree
Medium size, glossy fruit with 90% bright red color. Smooth, waxy, russet-free skin. Light flesh is crisp and juicy.
Redsleeves
Red flushed, smooth skinned, dessert variety. Sweet, lightly aromatic, crisp, juicy flesh; can be weakly flavored.
Redwell
Large, well colored fruit; red over yellow skin. Cream colored flesh. Mild, excellent flavor. Keeps until January in storage.
Regent
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.
Reinette Clochard
A pretty yellow-skinned traditional French apple.
Reinette de Flandre
An ancient dual-purpose apple variety, found across southern Belgium and northern France.
Reinette de France
A highly-regarded traditional French dessert apple.
Reinette de Waleffe
A highly-regarded traditional Belgian dessert apple with a good sweet / sharp aromatic flavor.
Reinette des Capucins
An ancient French country apple variety, ideal for traditional French cookery and for eating fresh.
Reinette Descardre
Reinette Descardre is a good quality Belgian dessert apple with a sweet fruity flavor.
Reinette du Canada
An old French russet variety, and remains the definitive French russet variety. Also known as Reinette Blanche du Canada.
Reinette Grise du Canada
A more russeted form of the popular Reinette du Canada. Grown commercially in France and Italy.
Reinette Rouge Etoilee
A popular traditional apple from the Low Countries.
Reinette Russet
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
Light pink-orange over green-yellow. Long conical shape.
Reverend Morgan
Pinkish red colored skin with good quality fruit. Superb flavor and texture.
Reverend W Wilks
Good early cooker, and easy to grow.
Revival
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
One of the oldest American varieties, known since the 1650s, and widely planted in the USA. Its main use is in cooking.
Ribston Pippin
Famous Yorkshire apple variety, probably the parent of Cox's Orange Pippin.
Richared Delicious
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
Medium size. Attractive, juicy, crisp. Very good flavor. Mild to subacid with high sugar and aroma.
Rival
A Cox-style cooking apple, commercially successful in the 1920s.
Rocket Red Braeburn
Very intense red blush with narrow, intense stripes.
Rockit
Rockit is a very small modern red apple, only a bit bigger than a golf ball, marketed as a snacking apple.
Rome Beauty
An extremely attractive and productive red cooking apple, widely-grown in North America.
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple from the Victorian era, though not as well known as its contemporaries.
Rosette
An early-season pink-fleshed apple variety, similar to Discovery.
Rouville
Red over pale green-yellow. Oblate. Juicy.
Roxbury Russet
Probably the first apple variety originating in North America, as a seedling from a variety brought from Europe by early settlers.
Royal Empire
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
Orange-red sweet, crisp medium-size fruit.
Royal Russet
Large and characteristic russet skin is brown with a greenish-yellow undercast. The yellow flesh has a sweet, nut-like flavor.
Royal Somerset
A culinary apple from Somerset, keeps well, and widely-used for making cider. Described by the 19th century writer Hogg as "very excellent".
Rubens
An attractive modern apple from Italy which is now being promoted in European supermarkets.
Rubens (UK NFC)
A dry and fairly soft apple with a noticeable hint of bananas, and a very attractive old-fashioned appearance.
Rubinette
Probably the best-tasting apple in the world.
Rubinette Rosso
A red-colored natural bud-mutation of Rubinette, trademarked as Rafzubex.
Rubinola
A mid-season disease-resistant variety from the Czech Republic, with a very good flavor.
Ruby Jon
Creamy, white flesh and crisp, juicy eating quality similar to old-fashioned Jonathan, with 100% Jonathan flavor and size.
Runkel
Medium to large. Pink over green-yellow. Smooth and waxy with pronounced lenticels. Sweet, rich flavor. Very juicy, fairly crisp.
Rusty Coat
Darker than Golden Russet with drier flesh. Very good flavor, excellent for drying, sauce and eating.
Saint Edmund's Pippin
A popular russet apple with the characteristic sandpaper skin and sweet flavour. Often known as St. Edmund's Russet.
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