I believe that if the tree was grown from a pip then it ( and its apples )
are effectively unidentifiable, so there may be no answer. As I understand
it named varieties are more or less "cloned" by propagating on by cuttings
grafted onto to various suitable rootstocks. Seeds can be very variable, see
the "potato seeds" thread lower down for confirmation of that.

Andy.

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Jani wrote in message ...
Hi everyone,

'Scuse me dropping in unannounced, but I've baffled the people on
uk.religion.pagan, and they've sent me over here to the experts :-)

There's an apple tree down the road, planted presumably by the council
years
ago, and since no-one ever makes any use of the crop I thought I wouldn't
let it go to waste this year. Anyways, I nabbed one of the apples the
other
day to see if they were ripe, and I'm not sure what I've got here. It has
pinkish flesh near the core and the pips are the most gorgeous crimson
colour - admittedly my experience of apples is confined to the fruit and
veg
section at Morrisons, but I've never seen apples with red pips before.

The fruit started off with dark, shiny burgundy-coloured skin and as they
grew, that gave way to much rougher yellowish-greenish-brown skin.
They're
about the size of a Cox's pippin, don't have much flavour, and a sort of
soft woody texture.

Can anyone help? I've no idea what they are, apart from "some sort of
apple"


There are thousands of sorts of apple. In the autumn, there are
lots of apple day events, and at some of those you can get
apples identified- it's easier if you can take threee examples along, not
just one.

You can also get apples identifed for a fee at brogdale

www.brogdale.org.uk/


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Anton