Karmijn de Sonnaville

NOT IN STOCK at the moment. I maybe have one for sale.

Good Apple Info Snapshot:

An absolutely gorgeous and award winning flavored apple. You may not be able to bring the tree along, but if you do, you’ll be the local apple growing hero.

Every year you sell fruit trees, there’s always a few trees that get “left behind,” lost in the shuffle as it were. I had a Karmijn get lost among some pepper plants this year and get completely leaf scorched from lack of water. It dropped all its leaves before I found it and started watering it again. Within no time it re-leafed its entire self, with dense, green foliage! Despite any disease or setbacks, this variety is 100% determined. Don’t worry, the tree that I’m speaking of isn’t for sale… It’s earned a spot in my orchard.

Good Apple Info Difficulty Rating:

Hard. Susceptible to just about everything.
TRIPLOID ALERT: This variety needs two other varieties with an appropriate bloom time, for full pollenization.

Tree Habit:

vigorous and spreading tree. Can be difficult to grow at times but when it does take, this spur bearer crops well. Thin for annual production. Prefers cooler summers.

Apple Color:

orange-red burnished appearance and gold flecked russeting.

Size:

medium to large size fruit, conic, often irregular shape.

Flavor:

subacid – coarse and firm, and it is the most highly flavored of all the Cox’s offspring. Rich and aromatic with intense nutty and honeyed flavors. Mellows after a month in storage.

Bloom:

End Main season

Ripe:

End September

History:

Developed by Piet de Sonnaville in 1949 in the Netherlands. Cox’s Orange Pippin and Jonathan cross. Introduced in 1971. Some consider Karmijn to be superior to the beloved Cox’s Orange Pippin and all its other offspring.

Storage:

Good, 3+ months.

Uses:

fresh eating, baking.