Arkansas Black

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Arkansas Black

The Arkansas Black Spur Apple is a large, late season apple fruit tree. It is a very late maturing variety grown primarily in the Southeast. The distinctive dark red skin encases a high quality fruit even where summer nights are warm. Use this apple for dessert and cooking. This is a great variety to add in a cider blend, providing a high acid, spicy flavor. They have an excellent storage life. They keep for many months. Arkansas Black blooms in mid-season and is a great pollinator for early blooming apple varieties, varieties blooming in the middle of the season, and varieties blooming late in the season. ... more

 

Prairifire The tree form is upright, spreading, and becoming eventually round at maturity. The purple-red fruits are first to be noticed in late June and hang through early December. The firm fruits age to a cherry red. It is probably the most disease resistant of all crabapple selections.

Arkansas Black