Our Variety Assessment

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

Zommerood is one of the most appealing summer red-fleshed apples for fresh eating. Its flesh has a softly faded red colour and a sweet, strongly aromatic flavour that is more approachable than many sharply acidic red-fleshed cultivars. Harvest is around mid-August. The fruit has a short storage life and should be eaten, pressed or processed soon after picking.

Zommerood

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Zommerood red-fleshed apple tree, a sweet, strongly aromatic summer apple, picked in mid-August.

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: 4384 Categories: Apple trees, Red flesh apple trees

Description

Zommerood red-fleshed apple tree produces summer apples with a faded red colour inside the flesh.

The fruit is sweet, strongly aromatic and interesting for summer eating. It is picked around mid-August and does not keep for long.

Zommerood is generally quite resistant, with no particular disease sensitivity noted.

Flowering is mid-season. It pollinates well with Cabarette and Colapuis.

Zommerood is a rare apple tree, although it is one of the better-known red-fleshed apples among private growers.

On this variety, the foliage is green and the fruit develops its colour as it reaches maturity.

We supply Zommerood red-fleshed apple trees bare-root, in different forms depending on age and availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Summer variety with faintly red flesh, probably linked to the Roter Mond / Blutapfel group according to some commercial sources, harvested around mid-August.

Origin

Netherlands

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Harvest period

August 15-31

Eating / keeping period

2-3 weeks

Use

Fresh eating, Juice

Sweetness / acidity

Sweet and tangy