This North Carolina heirloom dates from the late 1700s. Medium to large in size, the greenish-yellow skin is covered with streaks of orange-red to red. This dessert apple has creamy-white flesh with a tinge of green under the skin, is firm, coarse-grained and crisp, with a subacid to sweet flavor, noticeably aromatic. Good for all processing including pies, sauce, dried, juice or hard cider. The large tree grows upright, spreading and is a prolific annual bearer. Ripens in September-November at 2700', and will keep all winter.

The mother tree is a very healthy specimen growing on an old mining claim ranch in Goodyears Bar, Sierra County CA near the North Fork of the Yuba River @ 2700’. Goodyears was a active hard rock and placer mining camp during the late 1800's, and is one of our favorite Gold Rush era hangouts. The owner of this tree, octogenarian Cy Rollins, is a walking (running!) encyclopedia of Sierra and Yuba County history, which he will share as time allows.