Elise Rathke
Variety of Apple · Malus domestica
Weeping apple with a drooping crown – a decorative culinary and cider variety.
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Taste & characteristics
Susceptibility & resistance
Scab
Profile
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Pure cider/must apple, not suited as a table apple; weak in flavour (grade 4).
Growth
Medium vigour; a 'weeping apple' with a strongly pendulous, downward-growing crown.
Yield
Established orchard and ornamental variety.
Notes
For orchard and garden. Somewhat scab-prone, otherwise fairly healthy. Attractive as an ornamental when grafted on a stem-builder above 2.50 m. Keeps 4 months.
Care
Graft as an ornamental onto a tall stem-builder (>2.50 m) so the weeping crown shows to effect.
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