2020年9月18日 · Jude and Addie Schuenemeyer had a mission – try to find the “extinct” Colorado Orange apple. Find out how nearly 20 years of detective work finally paid off.

2019年12月18日 · DON’T MISS: An apple revival near Four Corners is restoring hundreds of historic fruits — and the local ag economy. The announcement came following a visit to Colorado State University where they matched a suspected Colorado Orange apple to a wax cast of that variety made more than a century ago.

2024年10月14日 · The Colorado Orange apple is back. The fruits of more than 20 years of sleuthing, DNA testing and slogging through a long-forgotten archive of apple drawings and wax casts have appeared in a Western Slope orchard and a northern Colorado tree nursery.

2019年12月30日 · The Colorado Orange was discovered by a pair of intrepid apple conservationists after decades on the extinct list. Though Washington state’s apple growers recently made headlines with the introduction of the crunchy new Cosmic Crisp variety, Colorado has a long history as an apple growing state.

2024年5月22日 · Wesley Swartz has just one healthy Orange Apple sapling growing among a diverse 35-variety orchard in rural east Boulder County called Benevolence Orchard and Gardens. Swartz’s baby Orange Apple is surrounded by a cage to keep the deer away.

2019年12月29日 · In the western United States, apple anthropologists are excited about the rediscovery of an apple variety that was believed to be extinct. It's called the Colorado Orange apple.

2024年10月22日 · Steve Ela of Ela Family Farms stands for a picture holding heirloom Colorado Orange apples grown in a small plot on his family’s orchard near Hotchkiss, Sept. 26. The Colorado Orange apple is...

Historically described as large, round, oblate, slightly ridged at the calyx, stalk medium length, basin shallow; Yellowish-orange color with blush where exposed to the sun; flesh light yellow, exceedingly firm, yet very crisp; a rich, high aromatic, sub-acid flavor, most exceedingly juicy; in fact, in flavor and quality it is distinct and ...

2024年7月25日 · Rediscovering the Colorado Orange Apple. The Colorado Orange apple was believed to be extinct. The first time Jude and Addie heard about it was in an orchard and county fair record in Lakeview, Colorado. “We had never seen Colorado Orange listed before,” Jude said.

2014年9月10日 · The Colorado Orange is no orange; it is an apple, with a unique texture and citrus taste. There's a new effort to bring it and other endangered Colorado apples back from the brink of...