Excelsior

A red flushed mid-season sharp tasting cooking apple.

Origin: Essex UK, 1921

Pollination: Excelsior is a self-sterile triploid and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.Find pollination partners >

British-grown All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent, and have Defra plant-passport labels. More ...

Excelsior apple trees produced to order

Closing date for custom graft orders: 14 Jul 2027

We do not stock this variety, but we can produce custom-graft trees for you. Trees can be grafted on any of the following rootstocks:

Form	Rootstock	Price
Maiden	M9Dwarfing	£39.00
Maiden	M26Semi-dwarfing	£39.00
Maiden	MM106Semi-vigorous	£39.00
Maiden	MM111Vigorous	£39.00
Maiden	M25Very vigorous	£39.00

Custom graft trees would be supplied in December 2028. More details of our custom grafting service here.

History and description of Excelsior

Introduced 1921. Raised by W P Seabrook and Sons, Chelmsford, Essex. Commercially grown in Essex and Cambridgeshire in the 1930’s but later displaced by the Bramley. Smooth-skinned fruit with a bright red flush. Cream flesh, juicy and brisk. Cooks to a puree and makes a quite strongly-flavoured sauce. Very vigorous tree.

Characteristics of Excelsior apple trees

Use	Culinary
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Acid
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Late Aug
Season of use	Sep-Oct
Tree vigour	Vigorous
Tree habit	Upright-spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping
Pollination date	11
Pollination group	C
Self-fertility	Self-sterile triploid
Pollinators	Pollination partners