Apple Identifacation please

This was discovered on a walk in the forest by my sister any ideas please?

 

What does it taste like rosie.
Is it proper forest, or could it be an overgrown orchard?

 

If it is not in a cultivated area or in an area that was once cultivated then it could simply be a tree that has grown from a discarded core. In which case it would not be of any variety. Having said that it looks better than most apples grown from a pip. As Pete says what is the taste like?

 

Right, just contacted my sister re apple It was from a young tree,it was very sweet and crunchy, and when she cut it open with the view to growing the pips...it only had one pip innit, and the little tree was growing in the woods where she walks her dogs.

 

Sounds to me like it could be a one off, perhaps a seedling tree.

 

There would be no point in growing it from pips, because they would produce a type of fruit probably very different from what is on that tree now- it wouold be a new variety again. The only way to reproduce the tree properly would be to get some vegetative growth.
If she can find the tree again and considers it worth keeping for the garden then she could try and take a cutting. That would contain exactly the same genetic material and so would produce identical apples.However apple trees growing on their own roots tend to grow big and take a long time to come into fruit. A quicker way is to get the variety grafted, or budded, onto a rootstock, which is what has happended to all the apple trees that you buy from garden centres etc. All those millions of Golden Delicious apple trees in the world all have exactly the same genetic material and all originate from one single seedl;ing that has been grafted on.
There are firms that will graft the variety wood onto rootstocks for you. If you wish to investigate that aption then I can probably find the names for you.

 

Rosietu - That yellow apple does't look like a wild apple at all. That's the kind of apple that the evil queen would offer to Snow White, big and juicy ! But if you are saying that your sister picked it from a tree...

 

Ha Ha..My youngest sister always a little witch.. :D