An ornamental variety with a columnar tree, red flowers, leaves and fruits. Recommended for ornamental gardens.

Tree: columnar, stocky, unbranched or branched. Tree height is medium.

Leaves: large, shiny, with coarsely serrated edges. Leaf color: dark red in spring, dark greenish-red in summer, bright bronze in autumn.

Blooms: late, flowers large, purple, few flowers. Flowering intensity medium, tendency to bloom in the following years.

Fruit: small (30g), dark red, with intensely red flesh, bitter - contains tannins. Ripen in late September or early October, can be used for processing.

Good disease resistance , resistant to powdery mildew, little to moderate damage from scab.

Winter hardiness: Good in Zemgale, little tested elsewhere. Can replace the 'Maypole' variety, which is not sufficiently winter hardy in Latvia.

Recommended rootstocks: medium-sized rootstocks MM106, B.118. To obtain perfectly straight seedlings, they must be tied up in the nursery, but pruning the top is not allowed.