Apple 'Monty's Surprise'

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. 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.

Pollination: Needs a pollinator — plant within around 50 m of a compatible variety flowering at the same time, such as Baujade, Cox's Orange Pippin, Divine, Fuji, Initial, Lady in Red, Peasgood Nonsuch, Pacific Rose, Royal Gala, Thumbelina Candy Crunch, Blush Babe, Granny Smith.