Once widely grown in Meath, Apple Blood of the Boyne may not be an Irish heritage apple, as it is thought to be identical to Devonshire Quarrenden, an old apple from the English west country. An early dessert apple, the fruit is small, round and a vivid purplish blood-colour.
Red Delicious is a type of apple with a red exterior and sweet taste that was first recognized in Madison County, Iowa, in 1872. Today, the name Red Delicious comprises more than 50 cultivars. From 1968 to 2018, it was the most produced cultivar in the United States. Gala became the most produced after that.
'Pink Pearl' apples are generally medium-sized, with a conical shape. They are named for the color of their flesh, which is a bright rosy pink sometimes streaked or mottled with white. They have a translucent, yellow-green skin, and a crisp, juicy flesh with tart to sweet-tart taste.
In fact, crab apples are usually simply not eaten because they can be extremely sour or spongy in texture. Those that come from the Dalgo and Centennial trees are considered the most edible. Crab apples, like most fruit, have been bred through time for different purposes.
Few people have ever gotten to the chance to even taste the Black Diamond apple. These apples are extremely rare and only grown in remote places in the world.
Black Diamond apples are a rare variety from the family of Hua Niu apples (also known as the Chinese Red Delicious). The name is a little misleading because they aren't exactly black, but rather a dark hue of purple.
A new unique apple variety from Zaiger Genetics, Ghost apple is in a category by itself. These white skinned, white flesh apples have a sweet sub-acid flavor. This is a heat-loving apple that ripens in early July. It needs a pollenizer such as Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith or Pink Lady.
Horse apples are generally considered inedible by humans (and most animals, including horses). The size of the fruit has caused livestock fatalities from choking.
But which apples are the best-tasting apples? Some of the best-tasting apple varieties are Honeycrisp, Pink Lady, Fuji, Ambrosia, and Cox's Orange Pippin. These varieties are most flavorful when picked at peak ripeness and eaten within a few months of harvest.
While the phrase was first coined in 1913, it was based on a Pembrokeshire proverb that originated in 1866. In fact, Notes and Queries magazine was the first to publish the original quote: “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.”
RAINBOW was thought to have become extinct, but Carlos Manning discovered this tree in a small town near his home. According to Lee Calhoun, it was a Missouri apple sold by Stark Bros. Nursery around 1900, and was listed by a Virginia nursery from 1898 to 1901 as a dessert apple.
The Black Diamond apple (Chinese: gāla guǒ; 嘎啦果) is a rare breed from the family of Huaniu apples that is cultivated in the Tibetan region of Nyingchi. Despite what the name suggests, the apple rather is a purple hue, with white pulp on the inside. Its unique color is due to the region's high altitude of over 3,500 m.
One of the first apples picked each August, Ginger Gold is attractive, aromatic and has a gingery-sweet to mildly tart flavor. Ginger Gold apples are bright golden-green with flesh that is fine-textured, crisp and creamy white. This apple is great for snacks, salads and especially baking in pies.
Yellow. Yellow apples, smooth skinned, sometimes with red blush, can become almost white as they ripen. Often early apples for culinary use.
Mountain Rose apples are a red-fleshed apple variety and a member of the Rosacea family, species Malus domestica. This apple gets its name from the fact that it is grown near Mount Hood in Oregon, and because it has brilliant rosy red flesh.
There's a TON of varieties of pink apples, some of the most common are: Pink Pearl. Pink Sparkle. Thornberry.
The most popular varieties in Australia are the Pink Lady, the Royal Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith and the Delicious Apples. Some of the lesser known, but equally delicious apples include the Envy, Jazz, Kalei, and the Yello varieties.
If you think about the apples that you can find frequently at a grocery store, the top sweet apple is Fuji. The sugar levels in a Fuji apple range from 15-18 on average (remember, an apple is mostly made up of water).
The large fruit is yellowy and pocked which gives it a slight brain-like appearance (if you use your imagination) and thus gives the tree one of its more colorful common names, “Monkey Brains”. These brainy fruits are technically edible, but they are very hard and thus unappetizing to both humans and other animals.
Are crab apples poisonous? A crab apple's flesh is perfectly safe for people to eat. But like other apples, the seeds contain a toxic compound that can turn into cyanide when eaten. But don't worry — these apples are safe as long as you avoid the seeds and core.
Chestnut. American chestnut (Castanea dentata) are trees with green balls and used to be one of the most widespread native trees in North America, but a fungus blight wiped out most of them.
It is a hybrid of fuji, golden and honeycrisp. This new variety is resistant to browning and is described as being on the tart side. The apple is starchy right off the tree so it is harvested in September and October and stored until they are packed in January and February.
It has a smooth, glossy, even oily, golden-yellow peel. The sunny side of the apple can have lively red colors. The pulp is yellow-white, tender, sweet and resembles the taste of a reinette apple. The grenade has been used in much the same way as other old varieties in the region.
A set of mutations that makes one kind of Apple's cells grow larger than normal might eventually help growers produce crispy, delicious and giant apples that consumers would choose over other varieties.