Whitney Crabapple (Eating)

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Type: Tree

Zone: 3-9

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Exposure: Full Sun

Whitney Crab apple trees are one of the few crabapples that is great for eating out of hand. Often one of our favorite eating apples, crisp, juicy, subacid, almost sweet, with distinctive crabapple overtones. A small tree when mature making a nice selection for limited spaced gardens.

Whitney combines the usual crab benefits of being a great pollinator, easy to grow and highly productive with a few additional bonuses:

The fruit is larger than most crabs (so easier to pick and work with), it’s sweet enough to eat fresh as well as use in jellies and other preserves and it produces a particularly good juice for cider with a good level of sugar plus a pleasantly mild astringency, which adds to the mouthfeel and body of the cider.

Photo Credit: Thesupernursery