Grow premium Japanese apples at home with the Shinano Gold Apple tree, a prized variety known for its crisp texture, tropical aroma, and balanced sweet-tart flavor. These apples ripen to a rich golden-yellow color and offer exceptional eating quality with notes of citrus, honey, pineapple, and pear. The firm, juicy, and crunchy flesh makes them ideal for fresh eating, desserts, juice, baking, cider, and gourmet fruit displays.

This bare root apple tree is grafted onto M7 rootstock, providing manageable growth with strong productivity and adaptability for backyard orchards and home gardens. Shinano Gold apples are resistant to bruising and have a unique tropical flavor profile rarely found in traditional apple varieties.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 bare root Shinano Gold Apple tree
✔️ Grafted on M7 rootstock
✔️ Approximately 32 inches tall or taller
✔️ Healthy live fruit tree
✔️ Secure packaging for safe shipping

Growing Information

• Common Name: Shinano Gold Apple
• Botanical Name: Malus domestica ‘Shinano Gold’
• Plant Type: Fruiting deciduous apple tree
• Growth Stage: Bare root grafted tree
• Rootstock: M7
• Tree Size: Semi-dwarf
• Sun Requirements: Full sun
• Soil: Well-draining fertile soil
• Watering: Moderate during establishment
• Mature Height: Approximately 12–16 feet on M7 rootstock
• Fruit Color: Golden yellow
• Fruit Texture: Crisp and juicy
• Fruit Flavor: Sweet-tart with tropical notes
• Flavor Notes: Citrus, honey, pineapple, pear
• Harvest Season: Late season
• Pollination: Requires another compatible apple variety nearby
• Special Features: Crisp texture, tropical aroma, premium Japanese variety

Care Tip

Plant in full sun with good airflow for healthiest growth and best fruit quality. Annual pruning helps maintain shape, improve airflow, and increase fruit production.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.