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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Mystery photo

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's an apple. Why it has a purple tinge to it, I do not know.

robertguyton said...

Guess I'll have to try to make it a little harder next time Brendon!
That part of the apple is called the 'basin' and contains the sepals.
As to the colour, I'll have to ask my not-colour blind wife about that! She's recording the un-named apples of Southland by photographing their features, of which 'basin' is one of 25.

Anonymous said...

Is that one good for Cider?

Shunda barunda said...

That is an apples butt!!

robertguyton said...

Anon - it's a cooking apple from the Strathdale orchard in Southland and no one can remember its name. It may be good for cider but we've not tested it yet. We've got dozens of named cider apple trees planted throughout Southland now - Kingston Black, Slack-my-girdle, Yarlington Mill, Tomm Putt and Sweet Elford and a raft of unnamed should-be-good-for-cider apples - our future here is looking decidererdly good!