Our Variety Assessment

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

Gueule de Mouton produces an excellent apple with a fine balance of sweetness and acidity. Its juicy, refreshing flesh is equally suitable for fresh eating and high-quality juice. The distinctive elongated, conical fruit explains its unusual name. The vigorous, hardy tree is particularly well suited to traditional standard orchards and locations where it has enough room to develop.

Gueule de Mouton

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Gueule de Mouton is a fabulous apple that is good for eating fresh or juicing.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

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: 10793 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Gueule de Mouton produces a fabulous apple with the perfect sugar-acidity balance. Great eaten fresh or makes a very refreshing juice. The apples have a wonderful concial shape hence the name which roughly translates as ‘Sheep’s Mouth’.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old variety from the Nord / Aisne area, very common in open-grown orchards in Avesnois.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Keuleman

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Very vigorous, hardy, suited to open-grown trees and standard trees

Disease behaviour

Scab

Susceptible / prone to scab

Powdery mildew

Low to moderately susceptible

Canker

Resistant

Pollination

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These varieties flower at a compatible time and are the most relevant matches in the catalogue. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Harvest calendar

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