Opalescent Apple

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Opalescent Apple

Malus spp. Fall. Unknown parentage. George M. Hudson intro, Shultz, Barry County, MI, 1890s. Originally called Hudson’s Pride of Michigan but eventually sold as Opalescent by Dayton Star Nurseries, Xenia, OH, 1899.

Highly flavored dessert apple, well known among collectors. Very large brilliant deep red white-dotted fruit. Crisp, sweet, tart, juicy—but most of all supremely flavorful. Also considered a good cooking apple. Keeps till mid-late winter. Would be an excellent apple for the small commercial orchard farm stand or the CSA.

Likely at its best from Massachusetts north. For years, our scionwood came from an ancient broken-down tree three miles from John Bunker’s Super Chilly Farm in Palermo, Maine. Every fall he’d stop by to grab a few fruits. Vigorous medium-sized productive tree. Blooms midseason. Z4. Maine Grown. (Semi-dwarf: 2½-5' bare-root trees)



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