Description
Fruit:Â Medium round conical.
Skin:Â Attractive red blush with white lenticel spots.
Flesh:Â White; firm; crisp and juicy; sweet.
Maturity:Â Ripens late May to mid June.
Pollinators:Â Delicious, Granny Smith, most crab apples.
Comments:Â Good eating apple. Stores well. Originated in WA. A cross between Golden Delicious and Lady William.
GROWN LOCALLY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
| Sundowner® is the lesser-known sibling of Pink Lady®. On this website we tend to use the term “sibling” when talking about apple varieties with common parents. However unlike human children, apple siblings are nearly always raised in separate places by different growers, maybe decades or even centuries apart. However Pink Lady® and Sundowner® really are siblings – not only do they share the same parentage – Golden Delicious and Lady Williams – but they were developed at the same time by the same fruit breeder, John Cripps of Western Australia. Pink Lady® and Sundowner® are trademarks – the actual variety names are Cripps Pink and Cripps Red respectively.Sundowner® is very much a warm-climate apple. That means it needs long hot summers to ripen, but it also has a low-chill requirement so it can tolerate winters where temperatures are rarely below freezing. (Apples originated in mountainous central Asia and need a period of very cold weather each winter as part of their annual growing cycle).(INFORMATION CREDIT🙂 |
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