Perhaps the most unique collector’s tree we have. We grafted 9 of them, and they are not available anywhere else. The fruit is a whitish apple with small pink dots, sprays and stripes. The flesh is very crisp and spritely, wonderfully sweet and flavorful with a very strong complementing tartness that makes such a complete apple. Very superb quality. This is now, perhaps one of Adam’s favorite apples!

The mother tree is in an orchard with many other heirloom trees and is smaller than the average, It doesn’t have the same ultra-dwarfing size we are seeing with the grafted material. It is unknown whether or not it is a cultivated variety or chance seedling, but the fruit is too good to be accidental. Jenifer ID'ed the fruit to be Lamb Abby, but the tree's growing characteristics are unusual and don't fit the description. The age of the Mother tree is unknown, so who knows how productive or long it will take to get fruit. We are still learning more about this unusual tree as It appears to be ultra-dwarfing.
The MOST UNUSUAL CHARACTERISTIC:
We top grafted this variety onto a 5-year-old tree, and instead of growing 5’-6’ it grew about 6”. All new growth terminates in a very dense collection of buds, branches and spurs, almost like a witch’s broom. The pictures tell the story. The trees we grafted on m111 have only grew 7” in 2 years, but it has produced quite a few fruit spurs and side branches in a tight cluster. It could be an ultra-dwarfing columnar type apple. It could have a chemical imbalance of gibberellins which regulate node spacing. We will replant some of these trees in the orchard; a few we will bonsai; and we will continue to watch our top-grafted tree with great anticipation.