This wonderful, unique crabapple is small and sweet with a thin orange skin that blushes red in the sun. Its sweet, orange flesh makes for a delicious treat. The tree itself is the largest of 50 trees in a 100+ year old orchard. The caretaker stretches a net under the tree and catches the apples before they hit the ground to make orange crabapple jelly every year. It is, most likely, a great pollinator and adds beauty to any orchard. This may be the famous Transcendent Crab Apple but we haven't positively identified it.

We have found three of these trees, one in Dutch Flat, one in Cedar Ridge and another in North San Juan. Dutch Flat was an important stagecoach stop in the mid 1860's. Mining and timber harvesting were huge industries for the area, but it also boasted a rich intellectual and acting culture where even Mark Twain visited and performed at their historic Opera House.