Malus Sunset
Apple Tree
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Common Name: Apple Sunset (Dessert)
Latin Name: Malus domestica 'Sunset'
Soil: Fertile, well-drained soil
Position: Full sun
Flowering period/colour: April and May/White
Fruit picking time: Late September
Fruit Size/colour: Small-medium/ Golden. Flushed and striped with brown. Small patches of russet.
Pollination group: *3*
Raised from a seedling of Cox's Orange Pippin about 1918 in Kent. Very heavy regular cropper, superb aromatic flavour, crisp and juicy, golden-yellow with orange-red flush. A smaller apple than Cox but as it is much easier to grow is widely grown as a garden variety. Suitable for colder areas and is more resistant to frost.
To guarantee cross pollination plant in a sunny, open site with another tree from the same flowering group (e.g. Discovery).