Grow a beautiful and flavorful heirloom-style apple with this live Rainbow Delicious Apple Tree, shipped bare root and ready for planting. A second-generation variety in the Red Delicious family, Rainbow Delicious apples feature striking vibrant red stripes over a golden-yellow background, making them exceptionally attractive both on the tree and at harvest. The fragrant orange-yellow flesh develops a soft crisp texture when fully ripe and delivers a rich sweet flavor highly prized for fresh eating. Grafted on M7 rootstock for manageable semi-dwarf growth, this productive apple tree is an excellent addition to backyard orchards, edible landscapes, and home gardens. You will receive a healthy live bare root tree similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Rainbow Delicious Apple Tree
✔️ Height: approximately 32 inches tall
✔️ Trunk size: approximately 3/8 inch
✔️ Shipped bare root
✔️ Rootstock: M7
✔️ Healthy, dormant tree
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information
Common Name: Rainbow Delicious Apple
Botanical Name: Malus domestica ‘Rainbow Delicious’
Plant Type: Deciduous fruit tree
Growth Stage: Young grafted tree
Sun Requirements: Full sun preferred (6–8 hours daily)
Soil: Well-draining fertile soil
Watering: Moderate; water regularly during establishment
Mature Height: 12–18 feet on M7 rootstock
Growth Rate: Moderate
USDA Zones: 5–8
Harvest Season: Mid to late fall
Pollination: Requires another apple variety for pollination
Container Friendly: Yes, with pruning and proper care

Care Tip: Soak bare roots before planting and provide full sun for the best fruit color and sweetness. Annual pruning helps maintain healthy structure and improves airflow for better fruit quality.

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.