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First discovered as a chance seedling in southern England in 1770 by a gentleman named John Stair. First imported to the US in 1790 and planted on ...

This is an enormous apple. First discovered in 1875 along the Wolf River in Wisconsin- this apple soon became a popular baking apple because you on...

James H. Kidd first discovered the Gala Apple as one of several seedlings that results from a breeding program in New Zealand. The Gala first gaine...

Introduced from the Purdue-Rutgers-U of I Apple Breeding Program in 1994, the GoldRush apple is an excellent late season apple. Originally known as...

First created at Rutgers Fruit Research Center in New Jersey in 1971 and is a cross between apple PCF2-134 and PRI 669-205. The Crimson Crisp was ...

This University of Minnesota variety was introduced in 1977 and is a cross between the Northern Spy and MN 447 (Frostbite) Apples. Commercially vi...

Introduced in 1999 by the University of Minnesota as another cold hardy apple. The Zestar, also called Minnewashta, is a cross between the State F...

Pixie Crunch, or Co-op 33, is a 1971 cultivar of the PRI Institute grown at Purdue University. Descended from the Golden Delicious and Red Rome app...

This regal apple is named for Grand Duchess Catherine of Oldenburg, sister to Czar Alexander I and originates from the late 17th century in Eastern...

The University of Minnesota introduced this cold hardy apple in 2006 and is a crosse between the Sharon and Connell Red apples. It is consistently...

The Bonnie's Best Apple is native to Wisconsin found on an orchard owned by Bonnie Keehn in Cooksville, WI. She first showed the qualities of this ...

Created at the University of Minnesota in 1949 as a cold hardy apple pollinator. Its most famous off spring is the Wealthy Apple, also of the UofM ...

The Dandee Red was first discovered in 1997 in Roger, Ohio by Dan Simmons and released to the public in 2006. Literally growing as a limb off a Pa...

First bred in 1825 in Colnbrook, UK from possibly Ribston Pippin and the Blenheim Orange- the Cox Orange Pippins is the premier English Dessert App...

One of the oldest apples still in existence, the picturesque Calville has been around in France and Germany since the mid 1600s. The Premier Frenc...

Introduced in 1936 by R.C. Palmer from the Federal Agriculture Research Station (now the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre) in Summerland, British...

Also called NY109, known colloquially as the Firecracker Apple, is a 2020 Cornell University Apple Breeding Problem release. The apple is smaller t...

Made available to the public in the 2000s, the Story Apple (or Story Inored) is a disease resistant variety from the Novadi Corporation in France. ...

The Autumn Crisp apple is a relatively new variety of apple that was developed by Cornell University's apple breeding program in Geneva, New York, ...

Created at the Experimental Botany in Prague in 2008, this apple is a cross between the prolific Golden Delicious and the modern Topaz apples. It i...

A late October apple of superb fresh eating quality. The large golden-yellow apples have a snow-white, juicy, very sweet flesh. While best known fo...

Discovered at 1913 Kickapoo Orchard and grafted from a single specimen. The crabapples are small, about olive sized, are dark purple in color, and ...

A Mid- Late season bloomer, these white blossomed, single petaled crabapples are small and numerous on the tree. Excellent pollinators for apple tr...

Released to the public in 1975 from the Aomori Apple Experimental Research Station in northern Japan; it is a cross between the Golden Delicious an...