Winter Fameuse

Fall. Farmington ME, 19th c. Also called Fameuse West or Snow West. Sport of Fameuse with longer keeping quality. Mentioned in George Stilphen's book, The Apples of Maine, and found in the New Portland area by noted orchardist and fruit explorer Howard Wulf. Most of its characteristics are similar to Fameuse. Excellent eating, sauce and cider apple. Medium-sized roundish deep bright red with thin skin but different in that it often has an obvious suture line like Tolman Sweet. Snow-white flesh is sometimes stained red. Tender aromatic juicy sweet and tart; delicious eating. Also, unlike Fameuse, it keeps well into winter. Upright-spreading rather vigorous moderately tall very productive long-lived tree with dark reddish bark. Like Fameuse, susceptible to scab. Blooms early.