On a crisp December afternoon, as the sun slowly fell behind the nearby Sawatch Range, Addie and Jude Schuenemeyer stared at a nearly dead tree, a few apples dangling off its last living branch.But was this moment when the sun finally set on their nearly 20-year hunt for something many long believed was extinct?Growers will tell you Colorado is not the easiest place to grow fruit.
"Preserving genetic diversity of the apple is historically important and provides a valuable resource to today's farmers and consumers," says Addie. Looking through state horticulture records, they eventually narrowed down that the variety was first planted in Fremont County, about a two-hour drive south of Denver.
DNA samples of the apples and tree were sent to horticulture scientists at the University of Minnesota to be compared against other apple varieties in their vast databank.More than a year after they first saw the tree, the Schuenemeyers received the results:"unique, unknown." The apples they had found in Fremont County matched none of the thousands of apple genotypes in the scientists' DNA databank. It was good news.
"We became aware of a wax apple collection sitting in boxes in a retiring professor's office," says Linda Meyer, a CSU archivist."And the apples had a listing with them. One of the apples listed was a Colorado Orange." "She inscribed a very tiny number on the bottom side of each apple," explains Meyer."She then made a card with that number, identifying the apple, which orchard it had come from, and the year she had collected it."
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20 years we’ll spent
In 2014 there was a 'comeback' of the Colorado Orange Apple, so how did the couple miss that if they've been searching for 20 years?
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I was hoping that the apple was literally orange 😏
Interesting... I'd like to see what that looks like
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You mean the 'experts' got it wrong? Again?
No way! Scientists are never wrong!
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