High-quality late-season sweet dessert fruit. Large to very large, conic, yellow with a pink blush. Although not as famous as another Japanese apple with the same parentage, Mutsu (aka Crispin), Shizuka is one of those modern apples that could make it big one of these days in the grocery-store world. Gaining an enthusiastic following at the roadside stands of small commercial orchards.

Worth a trial. Should keep most of the winter in your root cellar or controlled atmospheric vault. Triploid: will not pollinate other apples. Blooms midseason. Z4.