Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Bravo!

Shane Gadsby -

A new breed of "Heart Smart" apples, with high antioxidant levels and crisp flesh.

  • Vigour: Medium
  • Precociousness: Medium
  • Resistances: Unknown
  • Size of fruit: Medium to large
  • Flowering: Early
  • Fruiting: Mid-autumn
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Fruit colour: Dark red to purple
  • Flesh colour: Yellow
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Sundowner x Royal Gala
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: None observed
  • Growth habit: Standard
  • Self-fertile: No

Developed by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture and Food in by renowned Apple breeder John Cripps (known for creating the Pink Lady, among others) under the codename "ANABP01", with the intention of creating a new line of disease resistant, heat tolerant, health related apples. Selected for it's very high antioxidants, and for it's deep star speckled appearance.

Commercially released in 2014 under the name "Bravo!", they are said to store well.

NOTE: I have only tried this apple directly, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety as it grows.This entry will be updated if I graft or purchase a tree in future.