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Ambrosia apple trees

$39.95
  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Pollination group: 4

Ambrosia is a late-season dessert apple with a crisp flesh and sweet flavor.

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Ambrosia apple trees for sale

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  • Dwarf, 1-year bare-root tree $39.95
    Mature height: 6ft-9ft after 10 years
    G.214, G.890 rootstock
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All about Ambrosia apple trees

Ambrosia is a modern late-season dessert apple with a crisp flesh and sweet flavor with little acidity. The apples ave an attractive yellow/green flushed with red.

Ambrosia is primarily used for eating fresh, but it can also be used in salads - the flesh browns very slowly.

How to grow

Ambrosia produces a vigorous tree which is productive from an early age.

Advice on fruit tree pollination.

History

Ambrosia was discovered as a chance seedling in an orchard of Jonagold trees in Canada. The parentage is not known but thought to be Jonagold  and Starking Delicious or Golden Delicious.

Ambrosia characteristics

  • Gardening skillAverage
  • Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
  • Pollination group4
  • Pollinating othersAverage
  • Picking seasonLate
  • UsesEating fresh
  • Keeping (of fruit)3 months or more
  • General resistanceAverage
  • Cedar apple rustVery susceptible
  • MildewSome resistance
  • Cold hardiness (USDA)Zone 4 (-34C)
  • Country of originCanada
  • Fruit colorGreen / YellowRed

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