Red d'Anjou Pear Rootstock/Size:OHxF97 Semi-Standard: 4-5 ft. (1 year older)

Red d'Anjou Pear Rootstock/Size:OHxF97 Semi-Standard: 4-5 ft. (1 year older)Overview A sport of the green DAnjou pearmeaning one of the limbs naturally mutated to produce red fruit and that limb was then propagatedRed DAnjou carries many of the same taste characteristics as its green counterpart. Its one of the few sports we grow because the flavor holds up to the original. (A lot of sports out there, we find, dont come anywhere close.) The main difference here is the coloreverything else is right on par. Flavor and Ripening

Blossoms are pinkish white and bloom reliably each year

vigorous tree hardy to Zone 4

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though may be smaller at times

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I harvested the last apple today (a squirrel got the other one) and it was still good eating

Some of the other varieties that taste better fresh don’t hold up in jam quite like Sparkle does

The apple has a great crunch and is very juicy

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