Honeycrisp

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Honeycrisp

Honeycrisp fruit is characterized by an exceptionally crisp and juicy texture. Great eating apple with its subacid flavor. Develops its full aromatic flavor if left on the tree until mid October. The tree is one of the most vigorous and hardy of apple trees, showing little damage at -40 degrees. Needs to be thinned heavily. The Honeycrisp apple is a high quality apple which keeps well for 5-6 months in common storage. The flavor is sub-acid and ranges from mild and well-balanced to strongly aromatic, depending on the degree of maturity. Its flesh is cream colored and coarse. ... get more information

 

Prairifire The purple-red fruits are first to be noticed in late June and hang through early December. The tree form is upright, spreading, and becoming eventually round at maturity. This red leafed tree has very attractive mahogany colored bark and persistent ornamental fruit. The Prairifire is highly resistant to fireblight, scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew. The firm fruits age to a cherry red. It is probably the most disease resistant of all crabapple selections. The new foliage is reddish-maroon, aging to reddish-green. The Prairifire™Crimson Crabapple tree, 'Malus 'Prairiefire', produces gorgeous buds followed by long-lasting, single, hot pink blossoms.

Honeycrisp