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Planet Ark celebrates National tree day on 28th July, and is responsible for coordinating volunteers to plant trees. For every dollar you donate, Woodbridge Fruit Trees will match with an equivalent amount, doubling the donation. See their work here: treeday.planetark.org
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when pollished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetnes offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily.
We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge old tree growing in Huonville, Tasmania, weighed down each year by massive crops of red orbs. We think it's a hybrid between a crab apple and a cultivated apple. It would also explain its vigour and prolific bearing. Great to eat, great cooked, juiced and make a very acceptable cider. It's become the most sought after of our whole catalogue. A customer wrote: 'One of our favourite trees is the Huonville Crab. It's a most attractive tree in our flower garden and as you say, the fruit is great to eat - the red flesh surprises everyone who bites into these little purple wonders!'.
Note this variety is also available on dwarfing an dstepover rootstocks.
Ripening Time | April - May |
Fertility | Needs a pollinator (produces viable pollen) |
Growth Habit | Free standing tree growing to around 2 - 3.5m tall and 3-4m wide. |
Rootstock | Semi-Dwarfing rootstock |
Chill Tolerance | Normal chill |
Plant Sizes | Normal: approx 70-130cm bare rooted; Small: approx 50-70cm bare rooted |
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