Apple ‘Monty’s Surprise’ is an excellent choice for eating, featuring a good, crisp texture, and light-green skin striped with red. Apple ‘Monty’s Surprise’ bears large fruit that ripens in mid-autumn, and it is disease-resistant. During spring, the pink buds of Apple ‘Monty’s Surprise’ develop into white flowers. Apple ‘Monty’s Surprise’ potentially has great health benefits, find out more at Heritage Food Crops. To ensure proper pollination, Apple ‘Monty’s Surprise’ requires cross-pollination from other cultivars such as Apple ‘Gala’, Apple ‘Golden Delicious’, Apple ‘Granny Smith’, Apple ‘Initial’, and Apple ‘Royal Gala’. Apple is deciduous and native to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and China. Learn more about Apple. Apple ‘Monty’s Surprise’ was discovered in April 2000 by Mark Christensen and friends in a remote part of the central North Island, New Zealand.