Malus Domestica Rosette Apple

Malus Domestica Rosette Apple Tree is an unusual deciduous eating apple with red flesh. It’s a compact variety that’s perfect for small gardens and mini orchards and works well as a patio fruit tree.

Malus Domestica the ‘domesticated apple’ is native to Central Asia where its wild ancestor Malus Sieversii still grows. Apple trees have been grown across Europe for thousands of years to eat raw, cooked, and made into cider. They ripen in autumn and store well across the winter. It’s no wonder this is such a popular fruit.

The variety Apple Rosette is an unusual one. Most apples have white or green flesh beneath their skin, but this has red flesh that forms a rosette shape when the fruit is cut in half, hence the name ‘rosette’. It was discovered as a naturally occurring sport of the very popular Malus Domestica Discovery. It has typical apple oval-shaped foliage which unfurls in spring and lasts until the late autumn frost. Its white-pink blossom is irresistible to pollinators and it holds the RHS plants for pollinators badge as a result.

If pollinated Apple Rosette produces a heavy crop of apples in late summer to early autumn. The apples are sweet/sharp straight from the tree, but mellow when stored for a short time.

This is an excellent choice of apple tree for small gardens, mini orchards and fussy children.

Height And Spread of Malus Domestica Rosette
This is a compact variety of apple tree that only reaches two metres in height and spread.

How Hardy Is Malus Domestica Rosette
Apple Rosette is hardy in the UK if it’s grown in well-drained soil in a sheltered spot. 

How To Use Malus Domestica Rosette
Use this small apple tree in compact gardens as a border filler or a stand-alone specimen for the lawn. Its apples are tasty eaten raw, stored, or cooked, but their ornamental value is great as well.
Due to its small size, this variety is an ideal patio fruit tree. 
Pollinators love its blossom and it requires very little care.

How To Care For Malus Domestica Rosette
To produce fruit Apple Rosette needs a pollinating partner. Granny Smith or Malus Domestica Melrose are both good choices.
Choose a wall side sunny spot for Apple Rosette avoiding frost pockets that can damage its blossom and lead to fewer fruits. A sunny spot will help ripen apples before winter arrives and keep it in good overall health.
It tolerates the majority of moist but well-drained soils including sand and chalk, but if your soil is thin bulk up the planting hole with plenty of organic matter and apply a thick mulch in spring.
Prune it to an open goblet shape in early spring and reduce last year’s growth by around a third, back to a strong outward-facing bud.
Be sure to water it well until you see new growth. Newly planted trees need lots of water to establish a strong root system.