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Rosette apple trees

Pick: Early-season    Flowering group: 2       Uses: Eat fresh | Juicing    Disease-resistance: Good
  • Rosette apple tree
  • Rosette apple tree
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Rosette is a new bright red early season apple, named for the rosette-like pattern of marbled pink flesh that is revealed when you cut the apple open.

Red or pink flesh is very unusual since most apples have white or cream flesh, and it will certainly make your Rosette apples a talking point. The flesh does not brown (oxidise) that quickly either so it can be used to add an interesting colour to savoury or fruit salads (although a dash of lemon juice will help).

As you would expect, Rosette produces a particularly attractive pink apple juice. The juice has a very good flavour in its own right, but is also useful for blending with juice from other varieties to give them some extra colour.

Most of the commercially-available red-fleshed apples are descended from a strain of red-fleshed crab-apples, but Rosette appears to be descended from mainstream apples - it has a passing resemblance to Discovery, and like Discovery it is an early-season variety, so there may be some relationship. As a result Rosette doesn't have the disease and/or poor flavour issues sometimes found with other red-fleshed apple varieties.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Rosette apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M9 rootstock £38.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £38.00
Large (3m - 4m)Half-standard premium - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £45.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)1-year - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £30.00
Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £32.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £30.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £30.00
Large (3m - 4m)Half-standard - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £35.00

Pot-grown cordon fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)Cordon premium - 12L pot - M9 rootstock £39.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Rosette

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 2000
  • Fruit colour: Red
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Rosette

Rosette is in flowering group 2. Rosette is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby.



How to grow Rosette apple trees

Rosette is a good cropper, and notably compact. It appears to have very good natural disease-resistance to scab, and is therefore suitable for growing throughout the UK. (Scab tends to be more prevalent in areas with higher rainfall).



Varieties with similar picking times to Rosette

<== Pick slightly earlierAbout the same timePick slightly later ==>
Devonshire Quarrenden
Discovery
Duchess of Oldenburg
George Cave
Grenadier
Irish Peach
Keswick Codlin

Scotch Dumpling

Gravenstein
Miller's Seedling
Redsleeves
Scrumptious
Sunrise
Zestar!



Historical details

Developed in the West Midlands and released in 2011.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Rosette



Related variety collections

Valentine's Day fruit trees, Mother's Day Collection


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