Varieties

Resembles McIntosh in taste, appearance, shape, and flesh. Slightly firmer than McIntosh. Aceymac may be Spartan with new name.

Classic Victorian 'pearmain' shape apple with a nutty sweet flavour.

Medium-sized, yellow-green underecolor with striped red wash. Good dessert quality. The apple name, Adanac, is Canada spelled backwards.

A red-fleshed apple variety from the USA, sometimes known as Hidden Rose® or Aerlies Red Flesh.

One of the best early-season apples, better known in the USA than Europe, but would appeal to European tastes too.

An heirloom apple variety from Sweden, quite widely grown in Scandanavia, very handsome fruit.

A red skinned form of Gravenstein.

An English (possibly Scottish) culinary apple, thought to have originated in the 1920s.

An old and attractive culinary apple, cooks to a puree.

A large traditional English cooking apple.

A very attractive early Cox-style apple, slightly sharper than Cox, sometimes known as Early Windsor.

An old russeted variety from Ireland, and as the name suggests, a good keeper.

A versatile English apple, with a strong pineapple-like flavour, useful for both cooking and eating.

A red-fleshed apple variety.

A sweet modern apple variety from western Canada, quite similar to Golden Delicious. Discovered as a chance seedling in an orchard in British Columbia.

Amere de Berthencourt is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.

An excellent early eating apple, also good for cooking. Medium size, yellow-green fruit is flushed and streaked red to purple red. Sweet, very juicy flesh.

An attractive small yellow apple, with a pineapple-like flavour. Popular in northern Europe.

A very early season Golden Delicious style apple variety from Israel, noted for its very low chill requirement of less than 300 hours.

A popular English culinary apple, which keeps its shape when cooked.

A popular small green culinary apple variety from Russia. Also of importance as a rootstock because of its ability to tolerate extreme cold.

A culinary apple from the Ukraine, possibly a more colored form of Antonovka.

Very unusual oblate (flattened) shape looking like a rounded star from the end. A little larger than the Lady apple. Excellent flavor - aromatic with sufficient acid and a sweet fruity taste.

An unusual and little-known apple variety noted for its apricot-like flavor.

An old apple variety from Ireland, with a flavor reminiscent of bananas.

A mid-season dessert apple from the north of France.

A modern French dessert apple variety, with built-in resistance to scab. Ariane is an attractive red/yellow colour and has a pleasant mild apple flavour.

A long-keeping tart apple from Arkansas, USA - which goes almost black in storage.

A sweet mid-season dessert apple, developed in Switzerland and related to Golden Delicious.

An attractive yellow/green apple with some red/orange flush. Shares its name with an old Gloucestershire (UK) pear variety.

A modern apple from Sweden, developed during the 1950s.

A high quality russet-style variety, sharper than Egremont Russet, with a rich flavour and occasionally a hint of lemon.

A well-known early season culinary apple. Cooks to a sweet puree. Grows easily in most situations.

An attractive and popular mid-season culinary apple, very versatile in the kitchen, cooks to a puree.

A large reliable dessert apple from northern France with a sharp flavour.

A very old apple variety, with a drab appearance which belies a unique peardrop flavour. Ashmead's Kernel is also one of very small number of English apple varieties that also thrives in North America.

Bright red blush over yellow-green. Keeps better than Golden Delicious.

A traditional late season red dessert apple from northern France.

A traditional French late-season eating apple with a good flavor.

Distinctly sweet and of very good quality, but not a very good keeper. Skin tender, clear bright yellow largely covered with deep red. Flesh tinged with yellow, firm, moderately juicy, decidedly sweet.

A very popular old American apple variety, widely grown for culinary use, and a good keeper.

Large, green with red blush. Coarse, hard flesh. Subacid. Winter keeper, keeping several months without refrigeration. Excellent cooking apple.

Discovered growing on an island off the coast of North Wales, and considered very disease-resistant.

An attractive old English cooking apple.

Medium to large fruit with an intense solid dark red skin. Lasts 3 months in storage.

Sharp/sweet flavour but fairly bland, quite chewy - looks better than it tastes

A modern red-fleshed apple variety with a good flavour, developed in Germany, and also known as Tickled Pink.

Beacon is a bright red early-season apple with a soft flesh, noted for its cold hardiness.

Fruit is yellow splashed with red. Short storage period.

A popular English garden apple from the Victorian era, one of the first to ripen.

An attractive 19th century dessert apple, possibly related to Blenheim Orange

Bedan is a traditional French bittersweet cider variety.

Large angular cooking apple

A relatively unknown English 19th century dessert apple.

A popular old dual-purpose apple from the Netherlands.

A traditional large dual-purpose late-season apple from Northern France.

A sport or seedling of Belle Fleur de France, with a darker red skin coloration.

A large cooking apple, found mainly in Belgium and northern France.

Very good flavored Mac-type.