The apple is crisp and juicy, with a sweet, tart, aromatically spicy quality to the flavor.
USDA Zones: 6–9
Not Self-fertile
Bloom Time-Mid-Season
Fruit medium to large, Yellow completely overlayed in red with numerous brown colored lenticels. Crisp, Juicy, Sweet, Tart, Spicy, Good keeper. Blooms April, Ripens December. During the 1900's this was a popular Southern apple. It originated with horticulturist, Oren T. Bowman of Sylacauga, Alabama who propagated the apple from the seeds of Yellow Transparent. He later sold the rights to the Commercial Nursery Company of Dechert , Tennessee,  in 1960. Trees were sold by the H. G. Hastings Nursery of Atlanta in the 60’s and 70’s. Rediscovered by collector, Joyce Neighbors of Alabama