Pomiferous

Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.

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

Pollination group:
A B C D E F G H
Harvest period:
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Calville Blanc d’Hiver

Calville Blanc d’Hiver

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce

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 ...

Sekai Ichi

Sekai Ichi

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Type: Dessert

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

Amère de Berthecourt

Amère de Berthecourt

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Type: Cider

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.

Blanc Mollet

Blanc Mollet

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Type: Cider

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

Fenouillet Gris

Fenouillet Gris

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Type: Cider, Dessert

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 ...

Golden Harvey

Golden Harvey

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Juice

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.

RF: Niedzwetzkyana's Apple

RF: Niedzwetzkyana's Apple

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Ornamental, Pollinization, Sauce

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.

Alexander

Alexander

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Type: Culinary, Dessert, Sauce

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

Northern Spy

Northern Spy

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

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.

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Surprise (Veitch) @6223

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

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

Updated: 2 days ago

Doctor Clifford

Doctor Clifford

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Sauce

summary: Rich red skin and conic shape make this an elegant apple, but it is not much in demand. Hard to find beyond Lincolnshire.

Updated: 2 days ago

Clifford Red Flesh

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Sauce

summary: Currently known as Burford Red Flesh. red flesh, juicy, semi-tart taste deep red foliage

Updated: 5 days ago

Berford Red Apple

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Type: Culinary, Cider

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.

Updated: 6 days ago

Bedford

Bedford

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Type: Cider, Ornamental, Pollinization

summary: This is an ornamental cultivar with rich red fruit. Only slightly larger than a walnut.

Updated: 1 week ago

RF: Berford Red Flesh

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Ornamental, Pollinization

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

Updated: 1 week ago

RF: Pink Pearl

RF: Pink Pearl

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: A classic pink-fleshed apple developed in the early 1940s by California fruit breeder Albert Etter.

Updated: 2 weeks ago

RF: Bill’s Red Flesh

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: A small, though vigorous tree with bright pink flowers and intense, red-fleshed fruit.

Updated: 3 weeks ago

RF: Niedzwetzkyana's Apple

RF: Niedzwetzkyana's Apple

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Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Ornamental, Pollinization, Sauce

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.

Updated: 3 weeks ago

Thornberry

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Type: Cider, Dessert, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: Descended from the red-fleshed apples that date back to the pink-fleshed Surprise apples found growing in the Eurasian hill-country in the early 1800s.

Updated: 3 weeks ago

Etter 16-32

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Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce

summary: Descended from the red-fleshed apples that date back to the pink fleshed Surprise apples found growing in the Eurasian hill-country in the early 1800s.

Updated: 3 weeks ago

Etter 14-9

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Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

summary: A tart fresh-eating apple. Also makes a distinctly pink apple sauce and unique pies and tarts.

Updated: 3 weeks ago