Ellis Bitter Size:M25 Ready late September

Ready late September

Green yellow skin with orange red flush

but best blended with sharper varieties

Described in the 1876 edition of ‘The Herefordshire Pomona’ and rediscovered by Bulmer’s who used it in their cider

Ellis Bitter Size:M25 Ready late SeptemberAn early bittersweet cider apple. Yellow green smooth waxy skin, heavily flecked with flush and slight russet. Flesh sweet and astringent, white, crisp and juicy. Flowers mid May. Harvest late September. Mature trees tend to be large and spreading. Slow to crop but then reliable, heavy fruit. A Devon variety also planted in the Long Ashton orchards in the 1930s. Triploid.