Identification help please - Apples?

[Nice65]

I am revealed? I've wanted to dump the RV moniker for years.

Have a word to the backstage crew if you do, they’re good like that.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Brian T, a good tempered old coot from Robson Valley, British Columbia, who is of an age where he probably thinks us lot are a litter of kittens by comparison to BC life, but is far too polite to say so. Wood carver and collector of different types of culinary salt.

 

[Robson Valley]

Thank you kind sir. Your cheque is in the mail.
Retired Bio professor having taught stud-nuts from Forestry professionals to Medical students.
Commercial pyrotechnics was a blast.
I shall speak to those behind the curtains.

 

[TLM]

Here's the link to the apple genetic history story. More than a thousand years ago.
Everybody inBCUK needs to read this to appreciate one of our best resources.

Nice find, reminds me of a story told by a Finnish botanist looking for ancestor apple trees in the Altai range. Locals tols him that they are everywhere in the that valley and they are wild. When he got there the first thing he noticed that the trees where in neat rows, so much for totally wild ...

Sloes, Rowan, Hawthorn, and Crabapples are in this category. Oh, and Medlar.

For Rowan one has to go and look for the right tree, surprising differences in taste, only waxwings eat all. One does not eat hawthorn!