Description

• Harvest: Mid
• Description: Semi-freestone, heart shaped fruit
• Skin: Red to dark red
• Flesh: Red
• Pollination: Self-fertile. Pollinator for other varieties
• Taste: Sweet
• Uses: Eating, drying, freezing and preserving
• Background: Compact Stella was introduced by the Canada Agricultural Research Station, Summerland, British Columbia about 1973. Compact originated as a mutant with semi-dwarf growth habit bred from Stella x Lapins. The tree is a small grower but still out-produces regular Stella and many other cultivars. Genetic dwarf tree grows to 40-60% of standard size. The tree fruits a little later than Stella