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Sommerfeld apples are fairly new and still gaining a reputation throughout their home state of California. They were discovered growing amidst a Gala and Fuji apple orchard in the mid-1990s. The new ...

sonya apples

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The very sweet sonya apple is a modern variety from New Zealand. It first appeared in markets in 2002 and is now being grown in the US and Nova Scotia as a controlled variety; only a select number of ...

sour cherries

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Sour cherries, botanical name Prunus cerasus, are a natural ocurring self-fertile hybrid between Prunus avium and Prunus fruticosa cherry trees. There are dozens of sour cherry tree varieties that ...

spartan apples

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A member of the rose family (Rosaceae), the spartan apple was originally believed to be a cross between a McIntosh and Newton Pippin apple, however recent DNA testing has eliminated Newton as a ...

Spitzenburg apples

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An American heirloom variety the Spitzenburg apple, also known as Esopus Spitzenburg is parent to another famous American variety, the Jonathon apple. The thick skin of the Spitzenburg apple is ...

star ruby grapefruit

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The star ruby grapefruit is a naturally developed mutating fruit, originally found growing on a "foster" grapefruit tree in San Benito, Texas in the 1930's. Utilizing the budwood from the foster tree ...

striped delicious apples

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The thick skin of the striped delicious apple is mottled with bright yellow, green and deep red blushes of color. Often the skin is also marked with faint white, yellow, light red or darker red ...