Description:
The Akane apple is an early season apple with round to conical medium-sized fruit. It has a green-yellow skin covered with a bright red color.  Its flesh is dense, firm, and white with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours. Akane was developed in Japan in the 1930s as a cross of the English early variety Worcester Pearmain and American heritage apple variety Jonathan.
Akane has moderately good disease resistance. 

Uses:
Akane is good eaten fresh and can also be used for baking or juicing.
 
Harvest: 
Early, late August to mid September

Pollinators:
Ginger Gold, Gala, Honeycrisp, Fuji.  
White flowering crabapples are also a good pollinator fo this variety.
For other varieties that will pollinate this variety we recommmend this 'Pollination Checker' from out friends at Orange Pippin Trees in the UK.