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Frostbite Apple Tree
Frostbite Apple Tree
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Frostbite is a Minnesota apple first fruited in 1921 and introduced by the University of Minnesota in 2008. The small to medium fruit has maroon red colour over a yellow gold background and firm, juicy, cream coloured flesh.
The apples are very sweet, crisp, and intensely flavoured. Tasters have compared the unusual flavour with molasses, sugar cane, and other savoury or fermented notes. Fruit ripens from late September into the middle of October, usually after Honeycrisp, and is used fresh or in cider.
Cold Hardiness Zone: 3
Cold hardinessZone 3 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 3 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
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Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
Apples need pollen from a different apple or crabapple to set fruit. A second variety in your yard will do it, and so will a neighbour's apple or fruiting crabapple. Double flowered ornamental crabapples make no pollen and do not count.