This is the most Unique and Beautiful Crab Apple we have ever seen! Very Rare.

This sweet tasting crab apple almost looks like a small Red Delicious but it has brilliant red flesh inside! We were very excited to find this apple tree barely alive on an 1860's Ranch and Gold Mining Site. For being almost dead, 7' tall, cut down, re-sprouted and living in the shade, it is doing pretty good and has put on quite a bit of apples over the past couple years.

Found along the Gold Rush Trail, aka Highway 49, the Golden Chain Highway, near Downieville. Downieville is historically one of the most important and colorful towns of the Northern Mines. Gold deposits were discovered in 1848-49. The spot where the town later developed went through several names, including The Forks because it is located where the North Fork of the Yuba and Downieville Rivers meet. In the spring of 1850 the town had 15 hotels and gambling halls, 4 bakeries, 4 butcher shops, and every piece of ground was claimed. In 1851 it had in excess of 5,000 inhabitants. Philo Haven and Francis Anderson were credited with being among the first to discover gold a short distance above the Jersey Bridge. It recieved 10 less votes than Sacramento in its bid to be the State Capitol.