What Kind of Apple is This?

[Beekissed]

This was posted on my local garden group. The tree is in Alameda.

Looks a bit like a Braeburn.

 

[Blue-Jay]

This is not about identifying this apple, but speaking of apples that I very much love, here is a neat article on where they think the origin of the apple is and the place is still a storehouse of apple genetics.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160523-kazakhstans-treasure-trove-of-wildly-flavoured-apples

 

[Nyboy]

With the story of Eve feeding Adam the forbidden apple I am surprise people still eat them

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Actually, biblical scholars disagree about what fruit the forbidden fruit was (a lot of Muslims think it was the fig, some other sects the banana, and there are some Eastern European groups who think it was the fly algaric mushroom).

A lot of people think the apple choice came about as the Catholic church was trying to introduce Christianity to the Celtic peoples of northern Europe, most of whom venerated the apple tree as the source of alcoholic cider. The fact that the Latin for apple is malum and that sounds like it has the word mal (evil) in it, and you see a pentagram when you slice one in half helped a little, as well as the fact apples were sacred to the pagan god Apollo.

 

[Nyboy]

Always learning thought everyone believed apple

 

[CarolPNW]

This was posted on my local garden group. The tree is in Alameda.

Could it possibly be a Gravenstein?

 

[Pulsegleaner]

By the by does anyone know the address or contact information for any apple variety preservation society? The More I think of it, the more I think I should send some of the apples from that tree I found in Mt. Kisco to one, in case they really ARE some old cider type.

 

[thistlebloom]

By the by does anyone know the address or contact information for any apple variety preservation society? The More I think of it, the more I think I should send some of the apples from that tree I found in Mt. Kisco to one, in case they really ARE some old cider type.

Have you ever taken a look at
Orange Pippen?
Maybe if you contacted them they could be helpful.

 

[digitS']

You might give these people in your neighborhood, a try:

http://www.temperateorchardconservancy.org/about/

I came across that organization's name reading about a local "apple investigator" . He has quite an interesting pastime - LINK.

Steve

 

[misfitmorgan]

I know this is old but this apple ID'er is really helpful
http://www.applename.com/
You are going to need a few of the apples in question in front of you to do it though and look up apple terms I want to use it to check the identity of a few of the trees we have.