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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.  Pollination partners

Easter Orange apple trees produced to order

Closing date for custom graft orders: 14 Jul 2024

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:

FormRootstockPriceQuantity
MaidenM9Dwarfing £39.00
MaidenM26Semi-dwarfing £39.00
MaidenMM106Semi-vigorous £39.00
MaidenMM111Vigorous £39.00
MaidenM25Very vigorous £39.00

Custom graft trees would be supplied in December 2025. More details of our custom grafting service here.

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

UseDessert
ColourFlushed
FlavourAromatic
Fruit sizeMedium
Picking timeEarly Oct
Season of useDec-Feb
Tree vigourSmall
Tree habitUpright-spreading
Fruit-bearingSpur-bearer
CroppingGood
Disease resistanceScab - Resistant
Pollination date12
Pollination groupD
Self-fertilitySelf-sterile
PollinatorsPollination partners
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