Aia Ilu (in English, ''Garden Beauty''
) is a
cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...
of domesticated
apple
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...
, from
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
, first developed in 1946 by Aleksander Siimon.
Characteristics
The Aia Ilu has large apples, weighing from 250 to 300
grams. It is juicy, bittersweet, and has a weak aroma.
The Aia Ilu is grown in nurseries, but is not widely propagated.
Pests
The Aia Ilu has low
scab resistance
and is resistant to
powdery mildew.
References
Apples
Apple cultivars
Agriculture in Estonia
{{apple-fruit-stub