Newton Wonder

A late-flowering dual-purpose apple that keeps well. GrowingHQ has not established its ploidy, so the pollination checker will return an incomplete answer for it rather than assuming diploid — which is the correct behaviour rather than a gap.

A cultivar of Apple. Everything on this page is about the cultivar; how to grow the species is on the plant page, and how big the tree gets is on the rootstock page.

Pollination

What this cultivar needs before it will set a crop.

Self-fertility: Needs a pollination partner
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple pollination
Checked 2026-08-13
Partner: A compatible partner is required
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple pollination
Checked 2026-08-13
Flowering group: 5 on the apple scale
source
Sourced guidancemoderate confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple pollination groups
Checked 2026-08-13
Ploidy: unknown
Insufficient evidenceconfidence unknown
GrowingHQ has not established the ploidy of this cultivar.
No external citation — see the evidence type above.
Checked 2026-08-13
Partners needed: one

Partners for Newton Wonder, from the 35 apple cultivars GrowingHQ holds

Computed by the pollination engine from the flowering groups, ploidy and recorded pairings on each record — not a hand-written list. The scope is exactly what the heading says: these are the answers that exist in this catalogue, not the answers that exist.

No compatible partner in this catalogue

That is a statement about GrowingHQ’s coverage rather than about the cultivar. A nursery list will contain compatible cultivars this catalogue does not hold — the pollination mechanisms page explains how to work one out.

11 further cultivars return no verdict, because a flowering group or an incompatibility group is not recorded on one side. The engine reports that rather than assuming a value: Annie Elizabeth, Ashmead's Kernel, Braeburn, Crispin, Ellison's Orange, Gala, Golden Delicious, Jonagold, Laxton's Superb, Lord Derby, Pixie.

The fruit

Season: Late
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Sourced guidancehigh confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple cultivars — season
Checked 2026-08-13
Use: Eating and cooking
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Sourced guidancehigh confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple cultivars — use
Checked 2026-08-13
Keeping: Keeps through winter
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Sourced guidancehigh confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple cultivars — storage
Checked 2026-08-13

The plant

Vigour: More vigorous than average
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Sourced guidancehigh confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple cultivars — vigour
Checked 2026-08-13
Habit: Spreading
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Horticultural consensusmoderate confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple cultivars — habit
Checked 2026-08-13
Cropping: Crops regularly
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Sourced guidancehigh confidence
Royal Horticultural Society: Apple cultivars — cropping
Checked 2026-08-13

On each rootstock

The size of the tree comes from the rootstock. What the cultivar contributes is a direction, in words — GrowingHQ does not multiply the range by a vigour factor, because no source supports the multiplier and the resulting number would look far more precise than the inputs are.

Rootstock	Height	With this cultivar
M27	150–180 cm Sourced guidanceDepends on conditionshigh confidence Applies when: In reasonable soil with normal pruning. On poor dry ground an M27 tree can stall well below this and never fill out. Royal Horticultural Society: Apple rootstocks Checked 2026-08-13	Newton Wonder is a vigorous cultivar, so expect the upper end of this rootstock's range — though a dwarfing rootstock still keeps the tree small.
M9	200–250 cm Sourced guidanceDepends on conditionshigh confidence Applies when: Varies with soil fertility and with how vigorous the grafted cultivar is. Royal Horticultural Society: Apple rootstocks Checked 2026-08-13	Newton Wonder is a vigorous cultivar, so expect the upper end of this rootstock's range — though a dwarfing rootstock still keeps the tree small.
M26	250–300 cm source Sourced guidancehigh confidence Royal Horticultural Society: Apple rootstocks Checked 2026-08-13	Newton Wonder is a vigorous cultivar, so expect the upper end of this range or beyond.
MM106	350–450 cm Sourced guidanceDepends on conditionshigh confidence Applies when: Kept smaller by pruning, but this is the size it wants to reach. Royal Horticultural Society: Apple rootstocks Checked 2026-08-13	Newton Wonder is a vigorous cultivar, so expect the upper end of this range or beyond.
MM111	450–550 cm source Sourced guidancehigh confidence Royal Horticultural Society: Apple rootstocks Checked 2026-08-13	Newton Wonder is a vigorous cultivar, so expect the upper end of this range or beyond.
M25	550–700 cm source Sourced guidancehigh confidence Royal Horticultural Society: Apple rootstocks Checked 2026-08-13	Newton Wonder is a vigorous cultivar, so expect the upper end of this range or beyond.

Full profiles for each of these are on the rootstock page.

Cultivar record reviewed 2026-08-13.