Deeproot Plant Base Online - Malus domestica 'Sunset'

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botanical name:
Malus domestica 'Sunset'

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: white
fruit colour: red
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:
Medium sized dessert apple of good flavour, golden flushed with orange-red. Self fertile.
Similar to Malus domestica 'Cox's Orange Pippin' but reputedly easier to grow.

cultivation:
Moderately fertile, well drained soil, preferably in full sun.
Harvest fruit in October.
Size depends on the grafting rootstock.
Self fertile, pollination group C.

propagation:
By grafting.