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Apple varieties which are good pollinators for other apples

Apples and crab-apples which produce widely-compatible or long-lasting pollen, useful for pollinating other apple varieties.

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  • Admiration

    Admiration crab apple trees
    Also known as Malus Adirondack. A dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Bountiful

    Bountiful apple trees
    Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Butterball

    Butterball crab apple trees
    Malus Butterball is named for its bright yellow fruits, which are also good for crab apple jelly.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Comtesse de Paris

    Comtesse de Paris crab apple trees
    Comtesse de Paris can be considered as an improved Golden Hornet. It features the same white blossom and persistent yellow fruitlets, but grows with a better form.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Donald Wyman

    Donald Wyman crab apple trees
    Donald Wyman is a classic white-flowered crab-apple, with very small red fruits, which persist into mid-winter.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Evereste

    Evereste crab apple trees
    Evereste is one of the most well-known crab-apples, featuring white blossom and red-yellow fruits.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Golden Delicious

    Golden Delicious apple trees
    The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Golden Gem

    Golden Gem crab apple trees
    A traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Golden Hornet

    Golden Hornet crab apple trees
    Malus Golden Hornet is a traditional white blossom crab apple, with persistent yellow fruits.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Gorgeous

    Gorgeous crab apple trees
    Malus Gorgeous has pink/white blossom and spherical cherry-like red fruits which are good for jelly.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Granny Smith

    Granny Smith apple trees
    Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Grenadier

    Grenadier apple trees
    Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Harry Baker

    Harry Baker crab apple trees
    Malus Harry Baker is a popular crab-apple with deep pink flowers and dark red fruits which are very good for crab-apple jelly.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: Crimson
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Indian Magic

    Indian Magic crab apple trees
    An excellent all-round crab apple, with attractive bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and small persistent red fruits.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: Pink
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • James Grieve

    James Grieve apple trees
    James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Jelly King®

    Jelly King crab apple trees
    A compact crab apple, with unusually large persistent fruits - excellent for crab apple jelly.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • John Downie

    John Downie crab apple trees
    John Downie is a traditional crab apple for making crab apple jelly. White blossom and orange-red fruits.
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Katy

    Katy apple trees
    Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Lane's Prince Albert

    Lane's Prince Albert apple trees
    A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Laura

    Laura crab apple trees
    Malus Laura is a very upright dwarf crab-apple, with bronze leaves, crimson blossom and maroon fruitlets.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Blossom colour: Crimson
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Little PaxTM

    Little Pax apple trees
    A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Louisa

    Louisa crab apple trees
    Malus Louisa is a pretty weeping crab apple with light pink blossom and small yellow fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Orange
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Malus baccata

    Malus baccata crab apple trees
    The Siberian crab-apple, noted for its exceptional cold-hardiness, disease-resistance, attractive blossom and clusters of cherry-like fruitlets in autumn,
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Malus floribunda

    Malus floribunda crab apple trees
    Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Malus transitoria

    Malus transitoria crab apple trees
    Malus transitoria is known as the Cut-leaf crab-apple, and features a mass of small white flowers, and clusters of tiny yellow fruitlets.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • NUVAR® Marble

    NUVAR® Marble crab apple trees
    A modern English crab-apple, with large fruits, ideal for early-season crab-apple jelly.
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Pink Glow

    Pink Glow crab apple trees
    Malus Dolgo, also known as Pink Glow, offers early-season white flowers and very attractive dark pink fruits. It is exceptionally cold-hardy.
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Prairie Fire®

    Prairie Fire crab apple trees
    Malus Prairie Fire is a medium-size upright crab-apple tree, notable for its dark pink flowers.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: Pink - dark

  • Professor Sprenger

    Professor Sprenger crab apple trees
    A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
    • Fruit colour: Orange
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Profusion

    Profusion crab apple trees
    Malus Profusion (also known as Directeur Moerlands) is a classic crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom followed by small crimson berry-like fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Blossom colour: Crimson
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Red Obelisk

    Red Obelisk crab apple trees
    Malus Red Obelisk is a compact upright crab-apple with white flowers, purple / green leaves, and red fruits - a good choice for making crab-apple jelly.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Red Sentinel

    Red Sentinel crab apple trees
    Malus Red Sentinel has classic white blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AM

  • Rosehip

    Rosehip crab apple trees
    Malus Rosehip is notable for its large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Scarlett

    Scarlett crab apple trees
    Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Purple
    • Blossom colour: Pink
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Spartan

    Spartan apple trees
    Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Sun Rival

    Sun Rival crab apple trees
    Malus Sun Rival is a popular weeping crab-apple, with pale pink blossom and small red berry-like fruitlets.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Wedding Bouquet

    Wedding Bouquet crab apple trees
    Malus Wedding Bouquet features ivory-white blossom and tiny red berry-like fruitlets.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • White Star

    White Star crab apple trees
    A modern English crab-apple with white star-like flowers followed by attractive russeted fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Russet
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile