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Apple Varieties
Boskoop is a dull red apple, often with extensive russeting and a quite sharp taste.
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 is dark green with a very tart taste.
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 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 has an orange-red colouring and a relatively strong and complex aromatic flavour.
Cripps Pink has a bright pink colour 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 is characterised by its golden yellow as underlying colour, overlaid with deep red and has a sweet, usually described as honeyed, taste.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 is crimson with occasional touches of green and a spicy tang taste. It was discovered in Woodstock, N.Y., in the 1920s.
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 flavor and was raised in Ottawa, Canada, in 1898 at Central Experiment Farm, from open-pollinated McIntosh.
McIntosh is deep red 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 has a greenish yellow to yellow colour and a sweet honeyed flavour.
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 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 is yellow with a pink/orange flush.
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 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 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.
Stayman has a distinctive sweet-tart flavour.
Winesap has a tart, tangy and juicy taste.
York is deep red with green streaks and an intense tart/sweet flavour. The York variety was discovered early last century, near York, Pennsylvania.
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