Queen

A very pretty large cooking apple cooking to a lovely bright yellow sharp puree.

Origin: Essex UK, 1858

Pollination: Queen is self-sterile 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. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification. More ...

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Characteristics of Queen apple trees

Use	Culinary
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Subacid
Fruit size	Large
Picking time	Mid Sep
Season of use	Sep-Dec
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Upright-spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Good
Pollination date	9
Pollination group	C
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners
Progeny	Bushey Grove