apple cultivars

The fruit does not keep as well as some other apple cultivars.

The York Imperial is one of the few apple cultivars that have survived for 180 years.

Normally, ciders are blended using juice from several apple cultivars to give the best results.

Most popular apple cultivars are soft but crisp.

Apple cultivars will show great signs of cosmetic damage including large, dark halos with a central russet.

Cider apples are a group of apple cultivars grown for their use in cider production.

Pearmain is a generic name given to pear-shaped apple cultivars such as:

Indeed, he purchased more land and devoted it to groving apple cultivars which the villagers would use to seed their own farms.

Despite this, modern apple breeders rarely accept russeting in new apple cultivars.

Its fruit is the largest of any species of Malus, up to 7 cm diameter, equal in size to many modern apple cultivars.

One large collection of over 2,100 apple cultivars is at the National Fruit Collection in England.

With storage the skin continues to darken; Arkansas Black is one of the darkest of all apple cultivars, hence the name.

Savanna Dry Cider is produced through the fermentation process of typically South African apple cultivars.

Table apples or dessert apples are a group of apple cultivars grown for eating raw as opposed to cooking or cidermaking.

On this site two nurserymen raised the famous apple cultivars 'John Downie' and 'James Grieve'.

Many apple cultivars have some natural russeting, but some are almost entirely covered in it, notably the Egremont Russet.

Despite the cosmetic damage suffered by these light skinned apple cultivars they are seemingly unaffected by most thrip vectored viruses.

Most new apple cultivars originate as seedlings, which either arise by chance or are bred by deliberately crossing cultivars with promising characteristics.

Some apple cultivars produce very little pollen; some produce pollen that is sterile, or incompatible with other apple varieties.

Originating in Asia, there are 7,500 known apple cultivars worldwide, producing 55 million tons per annum, to say nothing of the basketfuls rotting away in our gardens.

Three apple cultivars from England are 'Kingston Black', 'Stoke Red', and 'Dymock Red':

They contain between 9-11% sugars by weight and have a dense flesh that is sweeter and crisper than many other apple cultivars, making them popular with consumers around the world.

Famous American cider apple cultivars are Harrison Cider Apple, 'Campfield', Hewe's Virginia Crab, and Yates.

A third species that has been thought to have made contributions to the genome of the domestic apples is Malus baccata, but there is no hard evidence for this in older apple cultivars.

Apple cultivars have a diverse range of permissible minimum chilling: most have been bred for temperate weather, but Gala and Fuji can be successfully grown in subtropic Bakersfield, California.