'Moonlight' - the juicy greenish apple with balanced taste
'Moonlight' is a columnar variety with compact habit and weaker growth. This winter apple cultivar is a heavy but quite regular cropper and bears juicy, aromatic fruits with relatively long storability. It might be a great choice not only for home gardens but also for the commercial production of high-quality juice.
Parents
'Goldstar' × 'Telamon' (Waltz®)
Plant variety rights
United States Plant Patent US PP21,511P3 (granted 23.11.2010)
Plant Variety Rights in Switzerland CH 10.2216 (granted 31.03.2010)
Health
monogenic resistance to scab, tolerance to powdery mildew
Growth
tree type columnar and compact, bears on spurs only, vigour weak, diploid
Blossom
mid-season, flowers heavily and quite regularly
Ripening
early to mid-October, one week after 'Golden Delicious'
Fruit size & shape
size medium to large, shape conical, stalk medium long
Fruit colour
ground colour yellow-green to whitish-green, sometimes with a light red-orange blush, russet-free
Fruit quality & taste
flesh yellowish, firm to medium firm, crisp, fine-grained, juicy, flavour good, aromatic, with balanced sugar and acid levels
Productivity
very precocious, produces nearly regular heavy crops
Storability
in natural storage until March
Notes
maturity for consumption since November