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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

I'm no apple expert. And it's hard to ID from a picture. So I really have
no idea! The picture looks most to me, out of all the apples I've seen,
like an unsprayed Goldrush. But that's a really late apple, and I wouldn't
call it sweet (until much later in the year), and not really crispy, more
like hard.  Sounds very tasty though.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:27 PM, <david.maxwell@dal.ca> wrote:

> I have 2 trees of what was supposed to be Egremont Russet.  I am pretty
> sure it isn't.  A few
> of the fruit have a very fine russet, but the majority have a smooth,
> somewhat waxy skin,
> sometimes with minimal russetting in the basin or cavity.  The apples are
> small-to-medium in
> size, round, with no ribs, but ireregular and a bit lopsided. ER is
> supposed to ripen in late
> September; 95% of my crop is on the ground today, Sept. 12 (zone 5b).
>  (The few which are
> still on the tree do come away cleanly, have dark bown pips and taste
> ripe.  Last year I did
> starch index determinations also, and it was 6 by this point.)  So, it
> doesn't look like the
> pictures of Egremont Russet, it is an earlier apple, it is a sparse
> bearer, (E-R is supposed be
> very prolific).  But the really striking thing about it is the flavour,
> and it because of this
> extraordinary character that I think somebody may be able to give me a
> suggestion as to its
> true identity. (Normally trying to ID apples,even in one's hand is
> well-nigh impossible.)  This
> apple at first bite is sweet, crunchy, very juicy, but with considerable
> acidity and a definite
> flavour of cinnamon and nutmeg.  This cinnamon/nutmeg flavour becomes
> stronger over the
> next 30 seconds, and persists on the tongue for a good hour afterwards,
> long after the apple
> taste has faded.  It is so striking that I suspect that it may be used to
> identify it, as I have
> never tasted any apple even remotely like this.  So there you have it:
> what varieties have an
> overwhelming flavour of cinnamon/nutmeg?
>
>
>
> Ha!  I seemt to have succeeded in attaching a picture.  Most of the fruit
> are like the left-hand
> one, with slight very fine russet in the cavity or the basin, or the
> centre one, with no russet at
> all.  Only an occasional one has the netted russet of the right-hand
> example.
>
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