Late-season eating apples

Apple varieties that ripen late in the season, and are usually good for keeping as well as eating straight away.

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Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Ballerina Samba®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
£37.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
£46.00buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Chivers Delight
Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Christmas Pippin®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Core BlimeyTM
£44.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Cornish Aromatic
An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
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Cornish Gilliflower
Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
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Eden®
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
£44.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
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Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
£43.00 - £47.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Fiesta
Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
£43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
£35.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is an American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
£35.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
£43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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King of the Pippins
A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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King's Acre Pippin
A traditional late-season English apple with a robust flavour.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
£43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Little PaxTM
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
£26.50 - £35.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Orleans Reinette
Orleans Reinette is a traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Pixie
Pixie produces lots of small Cox-style apples, easy to grow and keep well.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Red Falstaff®
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
£32.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Rubinette
Considered by many to be the best-tasting apple ever, Rubinette has a perfect sweet / sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Tickled Pink
A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
£25.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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William Crump
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3

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