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Neville Copeman
type: Jelly, Ornamental, Pollinization
synonyms: Malus × purpurea 'Neville Copeman
summary: Mid-season flowering tree with an abundance of pink to lilac ornamental flowers, produces orange fruit. Useful for pollinating other apple trees.
identification: Round-oblong fruit the size of plums. Reddish orange. Usually produces abundant clusters of about 10 apples.
characteristics: Can be eaten but abundantly sharp and somewhat bitter.
origins: Developed in 1953 by Neville S. Copeman of Norfolk (U.K.).
cultivation: Small to medium size. Upright with rounded crown, often irregular. Spreading.
vulnerabilities: Can be susceptible to scab, canker and mildew.
harvest: Ornamental crab not grown for harvest.
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Self fertile but produces more abundantly when grown in the proximity of a source of compatible pollen.
flowers: Flowers mid-season
leaves: Purple in early season, later becoming dominantly green .
hardiness: 6
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