Arkansas Black Semi-dwarf Apple Malus Pumila 5 Gallon

Earl Holt, son of the early Arkansas settler, Jack Holt, owned the first commercial nursery in the state around 1850. His brother, De Kalb Holt, originated the Arkansas Black apple tree a few years later. Strikingly beautiful, the Arkansas Black apple, as the name suggests, is dark purple becoming nearly black apple at maturity. The Arkansas Black apple has very crisp flesh, coarse, greenish-white, sharp flavor, improving with age.  The tree is quite disease-resistant. The fruit begins ripening in early November and can be stored well into the winter months.

Arkansas Black is a Triploid apple, meaning it is sterile. It will not help pollinate other trees in your orchard. If planting a Triploid apple tree, you will need two other varieties which can cross-pollinate each other as well as the triploid variety. 

Another alternative is to plant a white blooming Crabapple tree in the area to aid in cross pollination of any apple tree.

Rootstock: MM.111

Flowering group: 3* 

*Flowering group indicates bloom period for cross-pollination. All the apple trees we carry will need cross pollination from another (different) apple tree. For best pollination, choose 2 or more trees that have the same Flowering group or an adjacent group. For example: Flowering group 3 tree can be pollinated by groups 2, 3 and 4