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Etter 16-32
type: Cider, Dessert, Juice, Ornamental, Pie
synonyms: Please see Thornberry by Greenmantle Nursery of Garberville, California (U.S.A.)
summary: Descended from the red-fleshed apples that date back to the pink fleshed Surprise apples found growing in the Eurasian hill-country in the early 1800s.
origins: Developed as one of 40 varieties by Albert Etter for California Nursery Company at his Briceland, California (U.S. orchard and nursery during the early 1940s using the red-fleshed Surprise (Etter) apple as a cornerstone. Of these, only seven were selected for the 1944 and 1945 CNC catalogue and the remaining Etter apples subsequently slipped into oblivion. Thirty years later, Ram and Marissa Fishman of Greenmantle Nursery, in their search for pink-fleshed and blossomed apple varieties, found a number of the Etter apples, the Etter 16-32 among them, which they subsequently propagated. It was registered as Thornberry in 1990 and marketed under licence by Greenmantle Nursery of Garberville, California as one of its Rosetta collection. The ancient tree which provided the scions was found on an abandoned orchard near the town of Whitehorn, California.
notes: A stunning ornamental tree during the long blooming period.
pollination peak: 1
cold storage weeks: 4
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