The Folia apple & pear library
All 80+ apple and pear cultivars we track, in one place.
Every apple and pear in our Pome Crop Intelligence Library. This is the catalogue on its own, showing what each cultivar is for, how hardy and disease-resistant it is, and how it grows. To see how any of them fits a specific property, with climate, fire-blight pressure, and the tradeoffs for your ground, start with your address.
Ambrosia
Chance seedling, BC Canada
Arkansas Black
Very dark red, very hard, tannic
Ashmead's Kernel
English heirloom russet
Baldwin
NE heirloom, crisp sweet-tart, all-purpose
Bartlett
Classic buttery dessert + canning standard
Black Oxford
Maine heirloom (Paris ME ~1790)
Blake's Pride
Yellow-gold, high quality, moderate-high yield
Bosc
Long-necked russeted
Braeburn
Sharp sweet-tart, firm, stores
Brown Snout
English bittersweet (Herefordshire 1850)
Calville Blanc d'Hiver
French heirloom culinary
Cameo
Sweet-tart crisp, chance seedling, stores well
Chisel Jersey
English bittersweet
Chojuro
Russet Asian, caramel/butterscotch notes, stores well
Comice
Doyenne du Comice
Cortland
McIntosh-type, white non-browning flesh, cold-hardy
Cosmic Crisp
Honeycrisp x Enterprise (WSU)
Cox's Orange Pippin
Benchmark English aromatic dessert
CrimsonCrisp
Crisp red dessert
D'Anjou
Buttery green winter pear
Dabinett
Soft bittersweet, vintage-quality single-variety cider
Dayton
Glossy red dessert
Empire
McIntosh x Red Delicious
Enterprise
Thick red skin
Envy
Royal Gala x Braeburn (NZ)
Esopus Spitzenburg
'standard of excellence for the Baldwin class' (Beach)
EverCrisp
Honeycrisp x Fuji (MAIA)
Freedom
Large red, sweet-mild
Fuji
Very sweet, dense, stores long
Gala
Sweet, mild, crisp
Ginger Gold
Early yellow, mild sweet-tart
Golden Delicious
Sweet, honeyed
Golden Russet
American heirloom russet
GoldRush
Complex sweet-acidic, spicy
Granny Smith
Tart green, firm, stores
Gravenstein
Heirloom, aromatic tart, cooking/cider/fresh
Grimes Golden
WV heirloom
Harovin Sundown
Origin AAFC Harrow/Vineland, Ontario (Cold Snap)
Harrison
Tip-bearer
Harrow Delight
Bartlett-like, early, smooth
Harrow Sweet
Precocious (fruit yr 2)
Honeycrisp
Explosive crisp texture, premium fresh
Honeysweet
Medium ~2
Hosui
Russet Asian, sweet juicy, top-rated Asian dessert
Idared
Tart, firm, very long keeper, cold-hardy
Jazz
Gala x Braeburn (NZ)
Jonafree
Jonathan-type, improved skin (less russet)
Jonagold
Large, rich sweet-tart (Golden honey + Jonathan tartness)
Jonathan
Tart, spicy
Kanzi
Gala x Braeburn (Belgium)
Kieffer
Gritty, cooking/canning, very hardy, heat/low-chill tolerant, vigorous
Kingston Black
English bittersharp
Korean Giant
Olympic/Dan Bae
Liberty
Ideal organic/espalier
Macoun
McIntosh x Jersey Black
Magness
Highly FB-resistant
McIntosh
Aromatic, tender, tart
Michelin
French bittersweet
Moonglow
Soft, mild, low-grit
Mutsu
Crispin
Newtown Pippin
Green, tart, aromatic
Nijisseiki
20th Century
Northern Spy
Large, complex sweet-tart, premium pie
Opal
Golden Delicious x Topaz (Czech)
Pacific Rose
Gala x Splendour (NZ)
Pink Lady
Juvenile fruit inferior, improves with tree age
Pinova
Golden Delicious x Cox-type
Potomac
Disease-resistant Anjou replacement
Priscilla
Red dessert
Pristine
Early yellow dessert
Rave
Honeycrisp x MonArk (UMN)
Red Delicious
Sweet, mild
Redfree
Medium bright red, sweet-crisp
Rome Beauty
Late keeper
Roxbury Russet
Russet, very high sugar
Seckel
Small, very sweet, sugar pear
Shenandoah
Aromatic Bartlett-like
Shinko
Bronze russet Asian, sweet, FB-resistant standard for Asian pears
Shinseiki
New Century
SnapDragon
Honeycrisp-derived (Cornell)
Stayman
Winesap seedling
Sundance
Yellow, sweet-acidic, late keeper
SweeTango
Honeycrisp x Zestar (UMN)
Warren
Buttery, excellent quality
Wickson
Crab
Williams Pride
Spicy, very crisp, dark red dessert
Yarlington Mill
English bittersweet
Zestar
UMN early, sweet-tart, crisp, cold-hardy
Where this data comes from
Sources
The variety data is drawn from the public references below. Each links to its source in context.
University extension and pomology research
Hardiness, chill, bloom and harvest timing, and disease-resistance ratings, from public extension programs and peer-reviewed research.
Cultivar identity and release records
Names, parentage, release histories, and patent status, from breeding programs and foundation collections.
Rootstock and disease references
Rootstock vigor and hardiness, fire-blight, scab, and rust ratings, from rootstock trials and extension disease guides.
Cider and use references
Cider classification (sharp, bittersharp, bittersweet, sweet), fresh-eating, and cooking character.
Every value carries a confidence flag: sourced, extension-draft, estimate, or inferred. Where a figure is a Folia estimate or a species-level default rather than a measured reading, the profile is built to show that, not to hide it.
The fit radar, the considerations, and the related-variety lists are derived. They are computed from the data above, not collected from a third party.
Assessing a specific property brings in separate public datasets (USGS, USDA, and NOAA, plus state parcel records). Those drive the per-site read, not this library.