THE WORLD APPLE AND PEAR ASSOCIATION

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Boskoop

Boskoop

 

Boskoop is a dull red apple, often with extensive russeting and a quite sharp taste.

Braeburn

Braeburn

 

Braeburn varies from orange to red over a yellow background and is a crisp, juicy apple with a rich, spicy-sweet flavour. It originated in New Zealand in the early 1950s, as a chance seedling with Lady Hamilton and Granny Smith as possible parents.

Bramley

Bramley

 

Bramley has a dark green colour and a very tart taste.

Cameo

Cameo

 

Cameo has red stripes over a cream-coloured background and a sweet-tart taste. It was discovered as a chance seedling in the late 1980s in Washington state.

Cortland

Cortland

 

Cortland is a sweet apple with only a hint of tartness. This variety originated in the late 1890s in New York state, a cross between McIntosh and Ben Davis developed at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

Cox Orange

Cox Orange

 

Cox Orange has an orange-red colouring and a relatively strong and complex aromatic flavour.

Cripps Pink

Cripps Pink

 

Cripps Pink has a bright pink colour with a firm, crisp flesh and a tangy-tart, sweet flavour. Developed in the 1970s by John Cripps in Western Australia, it is a cross between Golden Delicious and Lady Williams.

Elstar

Elstar

 

Elstar is characterised by its golden yellow as underlying colour, overlaid with deep red and has a sweet, usually described as honeyed, taste.

Empire

Empire

 

Empire with its intense marroon-red, overlying a light green background, has a crispy, juicy and sweet-tart flavour. Empire premiered in 1966 in the State of New York and is a cross between Red Delicious and McIntosh developed by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

Fuji

Fuji

 

Fuji is bi-coloured, typically striped with yellow and red and has a sweet flavour. It was originally developed in Japan in the late 1930s and named after Mt. Fuji.

Gala

Gala

 

Gala can vary in colour, from cream to red- and yellow-striped, and has a crispy, juicy and very sweet taste. This variety originated in New Zealand, a cross between Kidd’s Orange Red and Golden Delicious.

Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious

 

Golden Delicious has a pale yellow skin, sometimes with a red blush and a mellow and sweet taste. It was discovered as a chance seedling in 1890 in Clay County, West Virginia.

Granny Smith

Granny Smith

 

Granny Smith is characterised through its distinctive green flesh, which sometimes bears a red blush. It has a very tart flavour. This Australian native variety was discovered in 1868 as a chance seedling by “Granny” Anne Smith of Ryde, New South Wales.

Idared

Idared

 

Idared has a bright red skin and a tangy-tart flavour. Introduced in 1942, this Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station product is a cross between the Jonathan and Wagener apples.

Jonagold

Jonagold

 

Jonagold has a yellow-green base skin colour and a red-orange blush. It is crispy and juicy with a honey-tart flavour and is a blend of Jonathan and Golden Delicious apples, New York native.

Jonathan

 

Jonathan is crimson with occasional touches of green and a spicy tang taste. It was discovered in Woodstock, N.Y., in the 1920s.

Lobo

 

Lobo has a dark, dull purple flush which changes to bright scarlet red, almost completely covering its dull green-yellow ground. It is juicy with a pleasant vinous flavour and was raised in Ottawa, Canada, in 1898 at the Central Experiment Farm, from open-pollinated McIntosh.

McIntosh

McIntosh

 

McIntosh has a deep red colour, sometimes with a green blush, and a juicy, tangy tart taste. It was discovered as a chance seedling by John McIntosh in 1811.

Mutsu/Crispin

Mutsu/Crispin

 

Mutsu/Crispin has a greenish yellow to yellow colour and a sweet honeyed flavour.

Newtown Pippin

 

Newtown Pippin has a distinctive green colour, often with yellow highlights. It was discovered on Long Island in 1759 and is one of the oldest original U.S. varieties.

Northern Spy

Northern Spy

 

Northern Spy has a dark purplish red flush on silvery green to greenish yellow ground, with broad, short, broken, bright red stripes. It is juicy with a sweet, pleasant flavour. It was first grown in East Bloomfield, New York, as a seedling and introduced in 1840.

Pinova

Pinova

 

Pinova is yellow with a pink/orange flush.

Red Delicious

Red Delicious

 

Red Delicious varies in colour from striped red to solid midnight red and has a sweet, crispy and juicy taste. It originated in Iowa in the 1870s.

Rome

Rome

 

Rome is a red coloured apple with a mild, sweet flavour. The discovery of this apple in Rome Township, Ohio, in 1816 led to the origin of its name.

Spartan

Spartan

 

Spartan has a purplish-red colour and a sweet taste. A McIntosh-yellow Newton Pippin cross raised at the Dominion Experiment station, Summerland, British Columbia, it was introduced in 1936.

Winesap

Winesap

 

Winesap has a fully dark red colour and a tart, tangy and juicy taste.

York

 

York is deep red with green streaks and an intense tart/sweet flavour. The York variety was discovered early last century, near York, Pennsylvania.