An orange vanilla flavored, medium sized apple that made it's appearance in the mid 1800s. The medium sized fruit has grass green to soft-yellow skin and a little redish blush on the sunny side. The flavor is very good, and is considered good for eating and cooking, and inferior to none for cider. That means it is good in cider. It holds its shape when cooked or baked. Ripens mid October into November at 4500', and will keep three or more months under non refrigerated cool storage. A good, consistent cropper, the tree is moderately vigorous, self sterile and requires other apple varieties for good crops. Moderately resistant to mildew and fireblight. Widely adapted to growing in most moderate to high chill apple growing regions, and is very suited for cold winter locales.

The grandmother tree is a healthy specimen growing on an old farmstead that fed the local miners in the late 1800s. The property contains nearly 100 heirloom apples, pears and walnuts in reasonable health despite no irrigation, fertilization or pest control, near Goodyears Bar, Sierra County above the North Fork of the Yuba River @ 2800’. The brothers Miles and Andrew Goodyear, along with a Dr. Vaughan and a Mr. Morrison, prospected here in the summer of 1849 and found gold enough to settle down at this crossing of the Yuba River. The Goodyear boys built a sturdy cabin and before long the rich deposits attracted a number of other miners to their camp, which was given the name Goodyears Bar in honor of its founders.