Our Variety Assessment

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

Hidden Rose is one of the best red-fleshed apples for fresh eating. Beneath an understated yellow-green skin is crisp, juicy pink-to-red flesh with a sharp, gently sweet flavour sometimes compared to strawberry lemonade. This late cultivar is picked in October and can keep for several months, but it requires a sufficiently long growing season to ripen well.

Hidden Rose

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Hidden Rose is named for the unexpected rose pink flesh hidden under the plain green skin.

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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: 11524 Categories: Apple trees, Red flesh apple trees

Description

Hidden Rose is a plain green-skinned apple, but when you bite into it you find the unusual rose pink flesh inside.

As with many red or pink-fleshed apples the blossom is a deeper pink than is found in regular white-fleshed apples. This puts Hidden Rose in the middle of the spectrum which runs from regular mainstream apples with white or light pink blossom, green leaves, and white or cream flesh, to the dark-fleshed crab apples which usually have very dark pink blossom and bronze leaves.

Hidden Rose apples ripen quite late in the season. They have a pleasant tangy flavour, and overall this is one of the better-tasting red or pink-fleshed varieties. The apples can be kept in cold storage for several months.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Pink-fleshed chance seedling discovered in Oregon, near Airlie / Philomath, later marketed under the Hidden Rose® brand.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Chance seedling, uncertain parentage

Synonyms

Airlie Red Flesh, Aerlie Red Flesh, Newell-Kimzey, Mountain Rose, Watermelon Apple

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Vigorous, medium-sized tree with a spreading habit

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 2 - early.

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Additional variety information for Hidden Rose is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.