Apple - Norkent #5

Norkent Apple - Malus 'Norkent'

Height:  20 feet - Spread:  20 feet - Sunlight:  full sun - Hardiness Zone:  2b

Description: A very hardy and juicy scarlet-striped yellow apple, keeps well, late harvest; eating apples are high maintenance and need a second pollinator; the perfect combination of accent and fruit tree, needs well-drained soil and full sun

Edible Qualities: Norkent Apple is a small tree that is commonly grown for its edible qualities. It produces light green round apples (which are botanically known as 'pomes') with scarlet stripes and white flesh which are usually ready for picking from late summer to early fall. The apples have a sweet taste and a crisp texture.

Features & Attributes: Norkent Apple features showy clusters of lightly-scented white flowers with shell pink overtones along the branches in mid spring, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds. It has forest green foliage throughout the season. The pointy leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy light green apples with scarlet stripes, which are carried in abundance in late summer.