Winter Banana apple tree

• Gardening skill: Average
• Picking season: Very late
• Keeping (of fruit): 1-2 months
• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Pollination group: 4
• Uses: Eating fresh
• Uses: Juice
• Uses: Hard cider
• List of other varieties that will pollinate Winter Banana

A popular high-quality apple variety from Indiana, noted for its faint banana-like flavor.

Winter Banana is a particularly juicy apple, and can be used for sweet cider and hard cider.

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Winter Banana apple trees for sale

• Medium 1-year bare-root tree $33.75
  Mature height: 8ft-12ft after 10 years
  Semi-dwarf rootstock
  

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How to grow

Winter Banana is fairly easy to grow, but likes a long growing-season. Best avoided in areas where cedar-apple-rust is a problem.

Advice on fruit tree pollination.

Historical details

Indiana, late 19th century.

Winter Banana characteristics

• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Pollination group4
• Pollinating othersGood
• PloidyDiploid
• Bearing regularityRegular
• Fruit bearingSpur-bearer
• Picking seasonVery late
• UsesEating freshJuiceHard cider
• CroppingGood
• Keeping (of fruit)1-2 months
• Flavor style (apples)Sweeter
• General resistanceAverage
• Cedar apple rustVery susceptible
• Cold hardiness (USDA)(5) -20F / -29C
• Summer maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
• Country of originUnited States
• Period of origin1850 - 1899