anneli’s bitter

This is a wild selection made by Anneli Sunqvist on Deer Isle, Maine. She calls it bitter, but it is actually quite a good dessert fruit. The fruit from our trees which ripens in early September is only slightly acidic and mildly bitter.

The fruit is small-medium, (2 3/8 —5.7 cm) roundish, obscurely ribbed, long-stemmed, almost entirely yellow with pink blush and a small russet cavity splash. The calyx is medium-wide and open. Some of our fruit has had watercore. We’re looking forward to seeing enough fruit to try it in cider. Perhaps its mild bitterness will translate well. We obtained our scionwood from Anneli. Our trees are doing well and seem to be plenty hardy in zone 4.