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'ROSALIE': THE CHARMING PURPLE

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'Rosalie' is a great decorative tree for even very small home gardens thanks to its extremely columnar shape and overall grower friendliness. This ornamental variety boasts large attractive flowers that make the blooming tree unlikely to overlook. Its smaller fruits are not edible fresh, but - along with decorating the garden long until autumn months - may be used for making apple jelly.

Rosalie - ornamental apple variety
Rosalie - ornamental apple variety
Rosalie - ornamental apple variety

Origin: 'Aneta' x 'Maypole'

Tree: habit compact columnar with just an occasional need for removal of competitive shoots, vigour medium, young leaves greyed-purple, diploid

Blossom: mid-season, flowers are large, beautifully red-purple coloured

Productivity: precocious, produces heavy but regular crops of small ornamental fruits

Disease resistance: resistant to scab, tolerant to powdery mildew

PVR:
Community Plant Variety Rights EU 35515 (granted 03.06.2013)
Plant Variety Rights in the Czech Republic CZ 4/2013 (granted 07.01.2013)
United States Plant Patent US PP25,501 P3 (granted 05.05.2015)

Picking time: ornamental fruits ripen around mid- October, do not fall prematurely, hang on the tree well until November

Fruit size/shape: size small (50 mm in diameter), shape conical to globose-conical, stalk short to medium long

Colour: ground colour yellow-green, almost entirely covered with attractive dark red over colour, russet-free

Flesh and flavour: flesh reddish, may be suitable for making jelly but not for fresh eating

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