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Keeping / storage

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Flavor style

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Food uses

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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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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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Flesh color

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Awards

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Other qualities

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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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  • A popular large New England apple, sweet, crunchy, juicy, hint of strawberries - a well-flavoured apple.
  • Small, somewhat conical fruit, medium in size. Pale yellow apple often somewhat blushed, nearly orange yellow when ripe. Flesh tinged with yellow, moderately fine grained, tender, moderately sweet. Skin tough.
  • High quality eating apple. Almost solidly bright red. Tender, crisp, juicy flesh. Very sweet and piquant flavor.
  • Yellow skin is blushed red-orange and dotted with conspicuous white lenticels. Sweet, very honeyed, pale yellow flesh, but of little taste or acidity of fruit. Shares same parentage as Mutsu.
  • An early-season American apple from the University of Minnesota.
  • An attractive old apple, probably from Scotland
  • Orleans Reinette
    An old-fashioned 18th century French apple, with a good reputation for flavour, but usually not a good cropper.
  • Otava
    A modern red apple with a sharper flavor, with natural resistance to apple scab.
  • Very good early eating, cooking and sauce apple. Greenish-yellow washed and striped with red. Juicy and spicy.
  • Very similar to Golden Delicious. Flavor is sweet, honeyed, very juicy with little acidity.
  • Large. Limited storage life.
  • An attractive new late-season high-quality dessert apple from New Zealand.
  • Waxy green-yellow skin shaded red. White flesh with yellow cast. Crisp, firm, tender & juicy. Excellent for eating fresh. Rather attractive in color, quite variable in size. Good quality, but mild in flavor and eventually becoming nearly sweet.
  • Greenish yellow in color, very tart until fully ripe, keeps well. Good for cooking, drying, cider or eating out of hand.
  • Small to medium size. Green to yellow with red striping. Somewhat tart but plain cooking apple.
  • Peasgood's Nonsuch
    Highly esteemed culinary apple. Large pale yellow-green fruit, deepening to orange-yellow with short stripes of bright red and some russet patches. Good acid-sweet flavor, cooks to a froth.
  • Translucent yellow skin with blush. Highly aromatic, the flesh is tender, pleasantly flavored and ranks very good to best in quality. Color green becoming bright yellow with orange-red blush, sometimes partly deepening to pink. A good variety for attracting deer as the apples stay on the tree into winter.
  • An unusual red-fleshed apple from Cornwall or Devon in England. The bark, blossom, and leaves also have a dull-red tint.
  • Tetraploid Yellow Transparent. Very big fruit, otherwise similar to Yellow Transparent.
  • It is a large yellow green apple often with shiny skin and only occasionally covered with a fine russet.   It has juicy fine grained yellow flesh, rich and acidic in flavor and excellent for pies.
  • Large fruit with red flush over green skin. Flesh crisp and juicy with good subacid flavor.
  • Large yellow fruit with red stripes and russet specks. Fine grained, crisp and juicy flesh.
  • Pine Golden Pippin
    Russet. Sweet.
  • Pink Lady
    One of the best-known modern apples, Pink Lady is actually a trademark and the variety is more correctly known as Cripps Pink.
  • Pink Pearl
    A pink-fleshed apple developed by Californian enthusiast Albert Etter in the 1940s.
  • This apple obtains a red striped skin when mature, with an upside-down shape. Flesh is a deeper pink tone which varies with climatic changes. Tart and aromatic flavor.
  • A medium sized apple, light green skin turning yellow with a few faint red stripes. Pink colored flesh similar to that of Pink Pearl, but sweeter, with a nice fruity flavor.
  • Distinctive upside down shape, broad base narrow at the stem. Develops a red striped skin when ripe, flesh is deep pink, but varies according to climate. Tart mildly sweet with distinctive aromatic flavor.
  • Pinova
    An attractive yellow apple with a pink/orange flush. Crops heavily and stores well. Also known as Pinata.
  • Light red striping with a yellow undercoat. Rich sweet tart flavor.
  • Pitmaston Pine Apple
    An old English apple variety with an unusual flavour reminscent of pineapples.
  • Pixie
    A popular garden variety, and a very good Cox substitute, quite sharp flavour
  • Pixie Crunch
    Small, sweet flavored, crisp and juicy apple. Greenish-yellow base color with 90-100% red-purple overcolor.
  • Medium size. Round conical. Dark red blush over green. Sweet. Tastes like the variety Spartan.
  • Very good eating, canning and cooking apple. Pure yellow skin with crimson blush, tender, sweet and juicy flesh. Retains its form with cooking.
  • Porter's Perfection
    English cider apple. Cream coloured, flushed dark red. Bitter-sharp cider blending quality.
  • Probably the parent of James Grieve, popular 19th century cooker
  • As the name suggests Prairie Magic was developed in Manitoba specifically for the cold climate of the Canadian prairies.
  • All purpose. Red over yellow, attractive large fruit. Some russeting may occur. Excellent flavor, improves in storage. Extra long keeping winter apple.
  • Medium range red over green-yellow. Keeps well through January.
  • Medium to large fruit with dark red blush over yellow. Juicy white flesh with mild subacid flavor.
  • Highly regarded early American summer eating apple. Medium-large, smooth, light green fruit, crisp, juicy, tart.
  • Prince William is a modern bittersweet cider variety from the famous Long Ashton Research Station.
  • Medium size. Round to oblate round. Yellow to whitish pale yellow skin. Fine, crisp, breaking texture. Very spicy, very juicy, very aromatic. May develop off-flavor in storage.
  • Priscilla
    Medium in size. 65% red blush over yellow background. Crisp, coarse, mildly subacid. White to slightly greenish flesh. Good flavor and quality. Will store for three months. Fruit hangs well.
  • Pristine
    Beautiful lemon-yellow apple with a perfect finish. This high quality apple is very productive and is a good keeper for an early apple.
  • Prized for baking, good for canning or eating. Yellow skin marbled with greenish-yellow and a brown flush. Sweet, nonacid flesh is crisp and juicy.
  • Red skinned apple covered with small white dots. Soft texture, tart flavored.
  • Red fruit. Resembles Delicious in appearance and Northern Spy in quality. Keeps well.
  • Queen Cox
    A popular self-fertile sport of Cox's Orange Pippin, similar excellent flavour but slightly easier to grow.
  • Firm good quality early eating apple that ships well. Medium size, yellow, flushed red.
  • Rajka
    A modern variety from the Czech Republic, bred specifically for disease resistance.
  • 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.
  • Red, good quality. Becomes sweet when allowed to ripen fully.
  • A russeted sport of Golden Delicious, discovered in Kentucky in the 1970s. 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.
  • Eating, cooking and cider apple. Medium sized, crimson colored, flesh is juicy, tart and crisp with good flavor. Very short storage.
  • Medium size. Coarse, dryish flesh. Pear-flavored. Acceptable mild (non-tart) cooking apple. Not very juicy. Orange blush over yellow, resembling traditional peach coloring.
  • Crisp, juicy, aromatic and fine-textured white flesh with a high Vitamin C content.