To Quote C.C Langdon: "A Magnificent Apple"

Flesh is yellowish, tender and coarse grained. Slightly Juicy, tart, with a rich slightly spicy flavor.

USDA Zones: 6–9 Not Self-fertile Bloom Time-Mid-Late-Season

Synonyms: Junaliska, Junaluska, Junaluskee, Junalusky

Very Large, round tending irregular shape. Skin yellow with rough russeting and pale blush on the sunny side. Stem short, stubby, in a deeply wide cavity.

Origins: One of many seedlings grown by the Eastern Cherokee Nations on their lands in North Carolina during the first half of the 1800s. The land it was on belonged to Junaluskee, granted to him by Major-General Andrew Jackson's in 1819 for his contribution to a decisive victory battle against British forces at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, in the War of 1812. However the grant was revoked in 1838 when Cherokee were relocated by federal troops. Junaluskee later returned to North Carolina in 1843 reclaiming the property where the apple tree was located. In 1850, Junaluskee sold the grant to the property where the apple tree was located. Fortunately a local nurseryman by the name Silas McDowell, had propagated cuttings from the tree listing it in his mid to late 1800's catalogues. By the early 1900s and was thought to have been lost. Fortunately, a apple hunter legend in his own time Tom Brown, from Clemmons, North Carolina, tracked down the Junaluskee. As a result, the Junaluskee apple tree still lives and is available today for collectors.

Ripens October.

Good keeper