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["Naomi" <dragon-star@cableone.net>]

I have a friend looking for an Old type Idaho apple.  This is what he says about it.

the apples are normally   3 inch, somewhat smooth .with limited red......and somewhat tart, yet sweet flavor ...... they seem best right off the tree, however I've never tried to keep many of them as they are usually worm infected

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: the trees are always around  old homesteads, and normally the ones I can find are on deserted homesteads that  were  very old  track homes built in the  early 20's and 30's prolly

 they normally do not have the bumps on the bottom........ and of course taste is  relevant to the person doing the chewing

 

I also found this which Randy says sounds pretty close: The farm I grew up on in Idaho had a dozen huge apple trees with lovely green, tart, crisp apples that sunburn to stripes of red and yellow. A couple times we called an apple expert out to try and ID them. None could, just told us it was some "Antique variety". But it spoiled me for commercial apples forever

Naomi