Apple varieties

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.

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.

A synonym for Pinova.

Russet. Sweet.

One of the best-known modern apples, Pink Lady is actually a trademark and the variety is more correctly known as Cripps Pink.

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.

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.

An old English apple variety with an unusual flavour reminscent of pineapples.

A popular garden variety, and a very good Cox substitute, quite sharp flavour

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.

A synonym for Glockenapfel.

Very good eating, canning and cooking apple. Pure yellow skin with crimson blush, tender, sweet and juicy flesh. Retains its form with cooking.

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.

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.

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.