Monidel

An attractive red and yellow early dessert apple. Excellent sweet flavour, juicy and crisp.

Origin: France, 1990

Pollination: Monidel 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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History and description of Monidel

A more highly coloured sport of Delbardestivale raised at the Delbard Nursery in France in 1990. Medium to large conical-oblong fruit. Smooth skin with a bright red flush and stripes over a yellow background. Crisp, juicy, cream coloured flesh. Sweet with a hint of aniseed when fully ripe.

Characteristics of Monidel apple trees

Use	Dessert
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Sweet
Fruit size	Large
Picking time	Sep
Season of use	Sep
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Upright-spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Good
Pollination date	10
Pollination group	C
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners