Deeproot Plant Base Online - Malus domestica 'Rhode Island Greening'

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botanical name:
Malus domestica 'Rhode Island Greening'

common name: Orchard Apple
family: Rosaceae

characteristics: tree
height: 8.00m width: 8.00m
growth rate: medium
growth habit: rounded
leaf colour: green
flower colour: pink
fruit colour: light green
stem/bark colour: brown
main period of interest: Autumn

edible

medicinal

growing conditions: full sun, part shade, moist soil, clay soil
prefered soil pH: any
minimum temperature: -29°C
USDA zone: 5 to 9

description:
Cooking apple producing large, firm, tart flavoured, green-skinned fruits, often with some red tinting around the stem. May also be used for eating if harvested when fully ripe. Keeps well through winter.

cultivation:
Moderately fertile, well drained soil, preferably in full sun.
Harvest fruit from late September to November.
Size depends on the grafting rootstock.

propagation:
By grafting.

other notes:
Old American variety originating about 1650 at Green’s End, Newport, Rhode Island.