Cora’s Grand Greening

Cora’s Grand Greening is an old, high-quality, all-purpose cultivar that may have originated on North Haven Island, ME. The fruit is large to huge, blocky, deeply ribbed, green-skinned and often with a pinkish-red blush. The fruit resembles bell peppers on a tree. It is unlike any apple I’ve ever seen.

It was brought to my attention by Becky Bartovics whose farm is defined by the old, grafted tree in the center of the farm yard that’s been leaning downwind for many decades. Not knowing if it had a name, Becky named it after Cora Ames who farmed the property as a single woman in the nineteenth century. We have not found any other trees of this cultivar in Maine nor any descriptions of the apple that would give a clue to another name. Our scionwood comes from her old North Haven tree. Currently growing at Super Chilly Farm.