Easter Orange

A late dessert apple with an intense aromatic flavour.

Origin: Hampshire UK, 1897

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

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History and description of Easter Orange

Introduced in 1897 by Hillier and Sons, Winchester, Hants. Received RHS Award of Merit in 1897. Handsome, medium sized, scarlet flushed fruit. Intensely flavoured, aromatic deep cream flesh, rather chewy-textured. Keeps very well. A tree of weak vigour. Good cropper. Prone to bitter pit.

Characteristics of Easter Orange apple trees

Use	Dessert
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Aromatic
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Early Oct
Season of use	Dec-Feb
Tree vigour	Small
Tree habit	Upright-spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Good
Disease resistance	Scab - Resistant
Pollination date	12
Pollination group	D
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners