Folkestone

A red early season dessert apple.

Origin: Kent UK, 1964

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

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History and description of Folkestone

Folkestone apple was received by the National Fruit Collection, UK in 1964 from Chandler and Dunn, Ash, Kent. Probably a Tydeman’s Early Worcester X. A small to medium sized bright red fruit, firm chewy flesh with a slight flavour of strawberries. A tree of weak vigour.

Characteristics of Folkestone apple trees

Use	Dessert
Colour	Red
Flavour	Sweet
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Late Aug
Season of use	Aug-Sep
Tree vigour	Small
Tree habit	Upright-spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping
Pollination date	15
Pollination group	D
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners