Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

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Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.

summary: This is the quintessential ingredient for French apple tarts. Aside from its wonderful flavour and sharpness, it holds its shape well when baked. It is also ...

summary: Bred in Japan by crossing Delicious and Golden Delicious, the Sekai Ichi can grow extremely large.

summary: This bittersweet cider apple orginated in the 1800s in France and is valued for blending when additional bitterness is called for in hard cider.

summary: A French cider apple, medium body with a mild, bitter flavour. Classed as being very good.

summary: This flavourful, russet apple with its anise flavour emerged in the 1500s continues to be appreciated to this day as a dessert apple as well as for making ...

summary: Dessert apple, also used for making juice, but it shines as a cider apple providing an intense sweet-sharp flavour and high specific gravity in the juice.

summary: Found growing scattered across the Shin Tan Mountains of Central Asia and introduced in the Western World through the latter half of the 1800s.

summary: This apple can grow huge and it can be grown from seed with reasonable chance that it will produce a similar tree.

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and moderately sweet. Flavour is quite sweet-tart. Browns slowly when the flesh is exposed to air.

summary: This is the Pink Lady cultivar which was developed in Canada. For the Cripps cultivar, please see @1008 brand.

summary: A late ripening apple with pink flesh and distinctly fruity flavor.

summary: This premium supermarket apple was intended for fresh eating. It originates from a cross of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious carried out in Australia in 1973.

summary: This deeply-coloured crab apple is favoured for cider, pies and desserts.

summary: Favoured for making cider and desserts.

summary: Conic and lightly ribbed. The faded, yellowish-tan skin colour is partly covered with an orange-red wash, marked with thin, russet patches around the stem. Look ...

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summary: The Berford Apple is a white-fleshed variety behind its bright, red skin. Please see Berford Red Fleshed Apple ( RF: Berford Red Flesh ) for the red-fleshed variety.

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summary: Popular during the 1800s, this red-flesh apple tolerates warm climates. Used for cider.

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summary: Please see RF: Newell-Kimzey Apple. Listed as a Newell-Kimzey Apple RF: Newell-Kimzey Apple , also known as Bill's Red Flesh Apple RF: Bill’s Red Flesh . Marketed by Bill Schultz of Airlie.

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summary: Developed in Northern Germany. Glossy, soft-fleshed, and redflesh apple.

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summary: A pink- to red-fleshed apple native to the mountains of central Asia. Introduced in Europe and the Western Hemisphere in the early 1800s.

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