Where did you get it? Those folks should know something about it.

was the point of your post just to make the message go away from the top? Because that was not a very useful response. I wouldn't be asking if I had access to the original source.

So where did you get the apple, blind scion exchange?
I think it's a made up name because I can't get a single hit on it other than paint color. There haven't been many apples I haven't been able to get a hit on.

I'm sure you have enough experience to figure out when an unknown apple is ripe and what it's use is and you're looking for some first hand end user input.
Just like me looking for an end user who's tasted EarliBlaze.

I've often wondered the same thing about people posting unhelpful replies stating the obvious. Which reminds me I should re-ask what malathion injury to McIntosh is before I have to learn at the school of hard knocks.

Axel:

Bomber Green sounds like a made-up name to me. If you can't tell us the original source for this apple, how about the intermediate source? Some kind of trade? That would at least give us a clue as to whether this is foolishness. You have to give us something to go on, unless there is some reason we should not know.

Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

OK, ok, so no one has ever heard of this thing.

This variety showed up as part of a trade, but I don't know from whom. I have a possible suspect, and I E-mailed the person, but I've not heard back.

I have a very large number of scions in my special cooler, and I just finished grafting 250 varieties, it's been a lot of work, I have 25 new grafting stock trees from Vanwell on MM-111 which now have about 5-10 grafts on each. Bomber green is a complete unknown. Could be a pear for all I know, but the wood looks like an apple.

I looked at Botner's list, it's not on there either.

So perhaps it's a bogus variety.

Keep in mind, I've got a number of varieties all of you have never heard of. They are new local CRFG discoveries. They include the following, all definite new varieties as they were all local chance seedlings:

- Vanilla pippin: nice apple with a solid vanilla flavor
- banana flower: banana-flavored apple
- sweet valentine: pink lady-like flavored and textured apple, but bigger, more productive and ripens in early September, but doesn't look like a pink lady.
- merbert pippin: chance seedling from a CRFG member.

So I am not that quick to dismiss an unusually-named apple: bomber green could be someone's favorite chance seedling that has a bomber-green color. If it really has that color, it would be something quite amazing-looking.

I'll be posting a lot more on obscure varieties. Another mystery apple is "Cleopatra", it's from GRIN and it originated in Tasmania. A friend of mine grew up in Tasmania and he remembers this apple as one of his favorite childhood apple. But try to google this thing, there's virtually no information on it whatsoever.

I wouldn't call it a bogus variety.
If it's someone's chance seedling it would be a made up name that only the person with the chance seedling and people they've fed have ever tasted and it hasn't been grown in enough areas to give a good guesstimate on uses or storability.
That wouldn't make it a bogus variety.

If you are getting these through a local club it would probably net better results to ask for information through them.

You asked "was the point of your post just to make the message go away from the top?"

No.

I also searched for info on the name but wasn't able to locate it.

Perhaps as was suggested, it's a chance seedling that turned out to be a winner. If so, lucky you. If not, oh well, chalk it up to the risks of participating in seed & scion exchanges.