Fruit ripening time: May - June
 
Considered one of the best cider apples, producing a bitter-sharp and slightly astringent juice. Can be used to make a single varietal cider. 
 
The fruit is small with yellow-green skin, striped with dark red.
 
The trees are not vigorous, but will crop heavily, tending towards a biannual crop. 
 
Requires high chill hours to set fruit.
 
Uses: Cider. Stores for approximately 3 weeks in refrigeration. 
 
Tree Size: 
Dwarf: Can be kept to 1.5 m and grown in containersMust be staked.
 
Semi-dwarf: 3 - 5 m tall, depending on shape 
 
 
Pollinators: Five Crown Pippin, Brown’s Apple, Yarlington Mill, and late white flowering Crabapple especially the ornamental M. ioensis ‘Plena’. 
 
Flowering Group 6, very late to flower.