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Fuji
A crisp sweet apple with a perfumed honey-like flavour. Requires a warm location for best flavour.
Origin: Japan, 1939
Pollination: Fuji is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
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History and description of Fuji
Raised 1939 by H Niitsi, Horticultural Research Station, Morioka, Japan from a Ralls Janet X Delicious. Named in 1962. Commercially grown in Japan, New Zealand, Brazil, and Washington State, USA. and now being planted in Europe.An attractive apple. A pale green background skin colour turning pale yellow with an orange red flush. Crisp, firm and quite juicy flesh, perfumed with honey-like sweetness and no acidity. Tough skin.
A tree of moderate vigour. Heavy cropper. Requires a warm position in the UK and may fail to ripen properly in a poor summer.
Characteristics of Fuji apple trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | Flushed |
| Flavour | Sweet |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Late Oct |
| Season of use | Dec-Jan |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Heavy |
| Disease resistance | Scab - Resistant |
| Pollination date | 12 |
| Pollination group | D |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
| Parentage | Red Delicious |
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