Malus domestica 'MOONLIGHT'^®

Malus domestica 'MOONLIGHT'®
columnar apple tree

SIZE/TYPE	medium-sized shrub
USUAL HEIGHT	2-4m
USUAL WIDTH	0.5-0.8m
LEAVES	deciduous broadleaf
COLOUR OF LEAVES	green
FLOWERS	showy
COLOUR OF FLOWERS	white
BLOOMING TIME	April - May
LOCATION	full sun
USDA zone (lowest)	5b (down to -27°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Fruit trees

Moonlight^® is a Czech variety of columnar apple tree from 2010. It is a cross between Goldstar and Telamon, resulting in a columnar variety with excellent fruit resistant to scab and powdery mildew.

Moonlight^® has medium-sized fruit, similar to Golden Delicious in shape and colour – globose-conical or conical, greenish-yellow with light orange overlay. The flesh is yellow, firm and crisp, juicy, with a good sweet/sour balance. It is a late apple that can be picked from October and which stores well until late winter.

Being self-sterile it needs another apple tree as a pollinator. The best one is Golden Hornet crab-apple. Other suitable pollinators among apple trees are medium or late flowering varieties such as Golden Delicious and Red Delicious, Fuji, Granny Smith, James Grieve (all of them), Jonathan, Kent, Melrose, Opal, Otava, Pinova, Rajka, Rubinola, Spartan, or Starking. Apple trees can be pruned in mid-winter, however, since this is a columnar variety making only short lateral branches bearing fruit it can only be cut at the top should you wish to keep it smaller. Its expected hardiness is -27°C (USDA zone 5b).

Last update: 27-01-2012

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STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.