Apple varieties rediscovered by the Lost Apple Project

In this Oct. 29, 2019 photo, amateur botanist EJ Brandt of the Lost Apple Project examines apples he picked from a tree in an orchard near Troy, Idaho. Brandt and fellow amateur botanist David Benscoter recently learned that their work in the fall of 2019 has led to the rediscovery of 10 apple varieties in the Pacific Northwest that were planted by long-ago pioneers and had been thought extinct. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
In this Oct. 28, 2019, photo, amateur botanist David Benscoter, of the Lost Apple Project, sits near an apple picking pole as he studies his notes while collecting apples in an orchard at a remote homestead near Pullman, Wash. Benscoter and fellow amateur botanist EJ Brandt recently learned that their work in the fall of 2019 has led to the rediscovery of 10 apple varieties in the Pacific Northwest that were planted by long-ago pioneers and had been thought extinct. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
This 2019 photo provided by the Temperate Orchard Conservancy in Molalla, Ore., shows apples that were collected by David Benscoter and EJ Brandt of the Lost Apple Project in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. They are identified as being of the Gold Ridge variety, which is one of 10 apple varieties in the Pacific Northwest that were planted by long-ago pioneers and had been thought extinct. (Joanie Cooper/Temperate Orchard Conservancy via AP)
In this Oct. 28, 2019, photo, apples collected by amateur botanist David Benscoter, of the Lost Apple Project, rest next to his field notes and an apple picking pole in an orchard at a remote homestead near Pullman, Wash. Benscoter and fellow amateur botanist EJ Brandt recently learned that their work in the fall of 2019 has led to the rediscovery of 10 apple varieties in the Pacific Northwest that were planted by long-ago pioneers and had been thought extinct. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)