Malus x 'Red Delicious'
Red Delicious Apple
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Red Delicious Apple (Malus x 'Red Delicious') - Description
Apples are deciduous trees and shrubs with simple leaves and white, pink or red flowers with five petals. Apples are thought to be an American fruit, but they are not. The ancestors of the modern Apple is native to Asia and the Middle East. Modern Apples are highly hybridized and the fruit share little resemblance with the ancestral Apple.
Red Delicious Apple (Malus x 'Red Delicious') - Blooming
Clustered five-petaled blossoms with 15-20 stamens in center. Blooms generally before leaves unfold. Pink to red buds that fade as they bloom followed by red, yellow fruits.
Red Delicious Apple (Malus x 'Red Delicious') - Growth
Deciduous trees and shrubs, including the orchard trees that produce apples, and ornamental crabapples trees, whose fruit is also edible, but usually too tart to consume. Species grow best in full sun, but tolerate partial shade.
Red Delicious Apple (Malus x 'Red Delicious') - Planting
Sow seeds in fall in a seedbed. Can also propagate by budding in summer. Grafting is also possible and should be completed during the winter.
Red Delicious Apple (Malus x 'Red Delicious') - Pest
Modern-day cultivars are less disease prone than older varieties. Malus plants are most vulnerable to cedar-apple rust, apple scab, and fireblight. Other problems include crown and fruit rot, brown fruit rot, heart rot, mushroom root rot, and cankers. Common pests are fruit worms, Japanese beetle, caterpillars, scale insects, aphids, wood boreres, skeletonizers, and leaf rollers.
Red Delicious Apple (Malus x 'Red Delicious') - Interesting facts
Fruits produced by some species of Malus, including the Crabapples, are too sour to eat raw and work best in ciders. Smoking food on Apple wood gives the food a good flavor.
Red Delicious Apple (Malus x 'Red Delicious') - Soil and irrigation
Well-drained, acid or alkaline, loamy or clay soil.
