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Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Golden Gem is ideal for smaller gardens seeking both an ornamental crab apple and additional blossom for orchard pollination. Its rounded crown remains relatively compact, while dense clusters of strongly scented white flowers attract insects in spring. Tiny yellow fruit follows the blossom. We recommend it mainly for its flowers and modest size rather than for any significant fruit use.

Golden Gem

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 21576 Categories: Apple trees, Cider apple trees, Eating apple trees, Red flesh apple trees

Description

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Ornamental apple selection of poorly identified origin, used mainly as an orchard pollinator for its white blossom and small yellow-orange fruits.

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Excellent pollinizer

Ploidy

Probably diploid

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Low vigour, flowering on one- and two-year-old wood, starts flowering very young

Disease behaviour

Scab

Resistant, Vf gene

Powdery mildew

Moderately susceptible

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby.

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