Fruit ripening time: May - June
 
This apple has a unique flavour that is sprightly, with the sweet, honeyed flavour of a Golden Delicious, a balance of tart, and is very delicately spiced. A flavour you won't forget!
 
Quite a large size apple with yellow green skin, and can have a red blush on the sunny side. A cross between Golden Delicious and Indo. 
 
Can be prone to bitter pit when excessive vigour is encouraged with high Nitrogen fertilisers or excessive Winter pruning.
 
Uses: Excellent fresh eating. Good to use in salads, for juice, and drying. Mutsu also has excellent baking qualities and will keep its shape when cooked. Stores very well.
 
Tree Size: 
Dwarf: Can be kept to 1.5 m and grown in containers. Must be staked.
 
Semi-dwarf: 3 - 5 m tall, depending on shape 
 
Pollinators: Akané, Belle Cacheuse, Braeburn,  Cleopatra, Cornish Aromatic, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Cripps Pink, Democrat, Fuji, Freyberg, Gala, Geeveston Fanny, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Kingston Black, Lady in the Snow, Laxton’s Fortune, Prince Alfred, Red Delicious, Sturmer, Worcester Pearmain and white flowering Crabapples.
 
Flowering Group 3 and a TRIPLOID variety, producing no viable pollen itself and requiring pollination from 2-3 different pollinators.