Apple Wagner (Wagner's Prize)

Early spring variety of American origin. It was approved for the North Caucasus region of Russia. In recent years, it is found only as a pollinator in new plantings.

Trees are weak-growing with a wide-pyramidal, sparse crown.

Branches are gray-brown, slightly knobby, heavily hairy. Leaves are elongated or egg-shaped, strongly lobed. Leaf margin is single- or double-toothed, wavy. Petioles are of medium length, stipules are very small.

Fruits (apples) are medium to large, round-conical, strongly flattened, slightly ribbed, sometimes asymmetric. Main color is light green, turning yellow with storage; the covering is a red or dark-red blush covering up to two-thirds of the fruit. Peduncles are short and thin.

Flesh is white with a yellowish tint, juicy, pleasantly tart-sweet flavor, improving with storage.

Fruits store well until February.

The variety is very early-bearing and productive, bearing fruit intermittently. In southern Russia, trees are not sufficiently winter-hardy.

Lost its commercial significance due to insufficient winter-hardiness and low fruit quality.