Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Eagle Point Star

Shane Gadsby -

A larger edible crab-apple with a distinctive red star in the centre

  • Vigour: Medium
  • Precociousness: Medium
  • Resistances: Unknown
  • Size of fruit: Large crab-apple to medium
  • Flowering: Early
  • Fruiting: Early
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid (?)
  • Fruit colour: Red
  • Flesh colour: White with red star
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Unknown
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: None observed
  • Growth habit: Standard
  • Self-fertile: No

A chance seedling found along a road in Gippsland, Victoria (Australia), and introduced at one of the first Heritage & Rare Fruit Network's grafting workshops by an unknown attendee.

Described as being best eaten fresh, but having many crab-apple taste traits.

As is the case with many Australia varieties, information of this variety is scarce.

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, having only grafted it in 2021, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated as the tree grows and bears.