Apple – Golden Dorset

$25.00

Each fruit is 9-12cm in diameter. Mature Golden …

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Plant family: Rosaceae
Plant origin: Western Asia
Fruit description: Each fruit is 9-12cm in diameter. Mature Golden Dorset Apple trees will bear about 20 - 200 kilograms of fruit per year. Fruit is aromatic, green when nearing ripeness, or yellow in color when fully ripe, with a creamy coloured or white flesh, crisp, and juicy. Semi-ripe Golden Dorset Apples are similar in quality like a Granny Smith apple, ripe fruit are similar in quality like a Golden Delicious apple. The fruit keeps very well especially if chilled.
Flowers: Apple trees blossom in Spring at the same time as the new leaves are produced. The flowers are a pretty pinkish white color.
Growing conditions: The Golden Dorset Apple is a small deciduous tree, 2.5 metres tall. It is usually pruned to a height to make picking the fruit easy. They are suitable to be grown in the ground or in a pot.
Uses: Apples are delicious, refreshing sweet fresh eating fruit. They are extremely versatile, tasting wonderful in juice, pies, desserts, jellies, cakes, salads, casseroles, fresh muesli, stewed or dried. Apples can help make a cake moister.
Medicinal uses:
Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating. But Golden Dorset Apples can benefit from cross-pollination with Anna Apples which increases the fruit yield for both trees.
Harvest time Fruit ripens from December to Autumn. Pick earlier in tropical or subtropical climates as the fruit tends to degrade in hot weather.
Plant relatives
Special features: There is a very wide & interesting mythology and history around apples in many cultures.
Grown by method: Grafted Pot size: 6 litre
Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 2.5 metres high by 1.5 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 4 metres high by 4 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.
Shipping plant pot or planter bag size: 6 litre
 

Description

Each fruit is 9-12cm in diameter. Mature Golden Dorset Apple trees will bear about 20 – 200 kilograms of fruit per year. Fruit is aromatic, green when nearing ripeness, or yellow in color when fully ripe, with a creamy coloured or white flesh, crisp, and juicy. Semi-ripe Golden Dorset Apples are similar in quality like a Granny Smith apple, ripe fruit are similar in quality like a Golden Delicious apple. The fruit keeps very well especially if chilled.