Pomologists Puzzled

Granfer's Apple is its name, an apple that grows on a 200 (+) year old tree in Beaminster, Dorset.

Grandmother Diana Toms, 83, brought an apple recently to an event run by the Symondsbury Apple Project in Dorset to get some advise on caring for the old tree. Yet, the pomologists were unable to identify the apple... including experts from the National Fruit Collection (NFC).

The apple has been called the Granfer's Apple as long as Grandma Toms can remember. Her grandfather, born in 1860, always called it that in an shortend form of "Grandfather's Apple". The actual tree is thought to have been planted by Grandma Tom's great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Bugler cicrca 1800.

The difference in the apple appears to be the basic shape, stalk length and closed eye. With a sharp and crisp taste to it...... New style apple pie anyone???

Pomology is the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits, the best folks to identify an apple....

New type of apple, or forgotten one?

See the entire story at The Daily Mail