Apple: Wychwood Ruby

A member of the family of red leaf crab apples Malus x Purpurea, with bright pink blossoms and dark purple wood.

• Vigour: Medium
• Precociousness: Medium
• Resistances: Increased disease resistances noted (not specified)
• Size of fruit: Small crab
• Flowering: Early
• Fruiting: Early
• Cropping: Medium to heavy
• Ploidy: Diploid (?)
• Fruit colour: Brown-red
• Flesh colour: Red
• Leaf colour: Light red (maturing to light green in late season)
• Parentage: Malus x Yunanensis (open pollinated)
• Descendants: Unknown
• Biennialism: None observed
• Growth habit: Upright (not columnar)
• Self-fertile: No

First described in late 1800s Orleans, France, it's vibrant pink flowers and deep red leaves led to it being used as parentage to a wide family of ornamental crab apples.

NOTE: No details are documented of the fruit flavour. As such this entry will be updated when my own tree bears fruit.