Scrumptious® Apple Find a stockist Buy online from The Tree Shop Back To List Parentage: Starkspur Golden Delicious x Discovery Description: Scrumptious is an apple that is something very special. The most popular apple, self-fertile, tasty and easy to grow. Named for its wonderful complexity of flavours it has been carefully bred and selected specifically for our garden conditions. Scrumptious is a mid season variety suitable for planting in all areas of the UK. It is also frost hardy when in flower, thin skinned for children and can be eaten straight from the tree at any time during September. The fruit will naturally stay on the tree without falling. When tasted by apple lovers, descriptions include: fragrant and honeyed, liquorice and wine, a bunch of cherries, fresh, aromatic, soft and delicate, crisp and sweet. History: Developed in Kent by Hugh Ermen and released in 1980. Introduced by Frank P Matthews, Worcestershire in 2000. Attributes Uses: Eating Storing: October Pollination group 3 Self-fertility: Self-fertile Picking month: Mid September Award-winning Any UK district Relatively trouble-free Container Back To List Find a local stockist by selecting your county: Select a CountyAberdeenshireAngusArgyllshireAvonAyrshireBedfordshireBerkshireBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCardiffCarmarthenshireCeredigionChannel IslandsCheshireClwydConwyCornwallCumbriaDenbighshireDerbyshireDevonDorsetDumfriesshireDunbartonshireDurhamEast LothianEast SussexEssexFifeGlamorganGloucestershireGwentGwyneddHampshireHerefordshireHertfordshireHumbersideInverness-shireIsle of ManKentLanarkshireLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonLondonderryManchesterMerionethMerseysideMid GlamorganMiddlesexMidlothianMonmouthshireMontgomeryshireMorayshireNorfolkNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshirePembrokeshirePerthshirePowysRenfrewshireRoxburghshireRutlandShropshireSomersetSouth YorkshireStaffordshireStirlingshireSuffolkSurreyTaysideTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest LothianWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWigtownshireWiltshireWorcestershireYorkshire Search Discover these similar varieties… Discovery Apple Bright red flush. Crisp and juicy with a hint of strawberry. An excellent early dessert apple with good disease resistance. Full Details Ribston Pippin Apple Sweet, aromatic, crisp fruit with yellow-red flush. Firm, deep, cream flesh. Described as being “like a good dessert wine”. Full Details Ellison’s Orange Apple Striped, red, juicy eating apple. Aniseed flavour develops after picking retaining its melting juicy flesh. Full Details Alkmene Apple Good alternative to Cox with dense, crunchy flesh and slightly aromatic yet honeyed and sweet flavour. Full Details
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