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Plant Habit: Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Plant Height: 12 to 16 feet
Plant Spread: 10 to 15 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Shade Tree
Flowering Tree
Edible Parts: Fruit
Dynamic Accumulator: K (Potassium)
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Pollinators: Various insects
Containers: Not suitable for containers
Parentage: Lady Hamilton x unknown
Child plants: 6 child plants

Image
Common names
  • Apple

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Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2018-10-07
a branch of my favourite apples
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-04-23
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-04-17
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-10-02
Location: Bea’s garden
Date: 2023-09-15
Location: Bea’s garden
Date: 2023-09-15
Location: Bea’s garden
Date: 2023-09-15
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-11-11
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Nov 28, 2011

credit: Brian Arthur

UK National Fruit Collection photo

photo credit: André Karwath
Comments:
  • Posted by valleylynn (Oregon City, OR - Zone 8b) on Dec 9, 2011 5:47 PM concerning plant:
    Large, conical, very dense fleshed red apple with a nice sweet, but tart flavor. Remeniscent of Jonathan in some ways. Very crisp and juicy. It is one of the latest picking apples in the fall. Wait as long as possible for the best quality--- wait for its background color to change from green to yellow.
    Braeburn is very late harvesting, but an early to mid-season bloomer. It will bear heavy crops, but young trees can take a few years to set nice crops, even though there may be a multitude of blooms.

    Zone 5 to 8

    Originated in New Zealand in the 1950s, and by the last decades of the 20th century had been planted in all the major warm apple-growing regions of the world. Braeburn accounts for 40% of the entire apple production of New Zealand. Introduced to the USA in 1980's.
    Even in conservative Washington state, the most important apple-producing area of the USA, where Red Delicious and Golden Delicious have always held sway, Braeburn is now in the top 5 varieties produced.
    Named after Braeburn Orchards, where it was first grown commercially. It is generally thought to be a seedling of a variety called Lady Hamilton. The other parent is not known, but is popularly believed to be Granny Smith - quite likely given the time and location of its discovery, but there seems to be no scientific evidence to confirm this theory.

    Braeburn is a relatively easy variety for the backyard orchardist. It likes a warm but not hot climate. It can be grown successfully in the southern UK, and most parts of the USA.
Discussion Threads about this plant
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Untitled by Calif_Sue Dec 9, 2011 9:20 PM 1
Stunning by dave Apr 25, 2014 7:33 AM 2
What a lovely photo! by Bonehead Oct 13, 2018 9:06 AM 1

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