King David Black

Description borrowed from Trees of Antiquity: King David apple trees have many admirers. The first was Ben Frost of Durham, Arkansas, who discovered the King David apple along a fence row in the late 1800s. King David apple tree is a versatile fruit for cider, pies, sauce, and eating. Its admirers boast that it is the most wonderful eating apple in the world. It is a medium size deep dark red apple. It has firm, crisp, spicy, juicy yellow flesh. The King David apple tree is thought to be a cross between Jonathan x Arkansas Black, this solid red late-season apple hangs late on the tree and should be picked when full color develops. King David apple trees are said to be resistant to scab, cedar apple rust and fireblight. Would also be handsome espaliered.