Pomiferous
Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
MacExcel
type: Dessert
summary: An attractive and fine tasting apple, growing on a dwarfed columnar tree. Ideal for small gardens and even as a potted balcony apple during the growing season.
identification: Medium size, round to round conic with some ribbing. The skin is smooth and medium thick with a base colour of yellow over which are flushes of red with darker red broken stripes. It tends to have a fairly heavy white bloom on the surface as it approaches ripeness.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white and mild.
origins: Developed by Shahrokh Khanizadeh at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Horticultural Research and Development Centre in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec (Canada) from a 1971 cross-pollination between an experimental cultivar (O-522) and the columnar McIntosh Wijick (a sport of the McIntosh). It was selected in 1992 for additional testing and released in 2002. The O-522 has the genetics of Red Melba, Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Malus Floribunda 821 and Starkspur Compact Mac in its genetics.
cultivation: Columnar growth habit. Bears fruit on spurs. Will grow well in pots but root system must be protected from freezing during winter.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Immune to scab, resistant to powdery mildew
harvest: Ready for harvest in the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 5
Donate a cider?
©2016-2021 Pomiferous.com. All rights reserved