'Rosalie' - the charming purple beauty
'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.
Parents
'Aneta' × 'Maypole'
Plant variety rights
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)
Health
monogenic resistance to scab, tolerance to powdery mildew
Growth
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
Ripening
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
Fruit colour
ground colour yellow-green, almost entirely covered with attractive dark red over colour, russet-free
Fruit quality & taste
flesh reddish, may be suitable for making jelly but not for fresh eating
Productivity
precocious, produces heavy but regular crops of small ornamental fruits
Storability
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