Lodi (L) and Yellow Transparent. These early varieties are sometimes confused.
I have been trying to get these guys together for years. They are related.
Although both are among the earliest varieties of the summer, their respective seasons are so short, and their shelf lives so brief, that they rarely overlap.
As it turns out, many of the apples that drew me last month—16 of them—were offspring of Gala and Braeburn, two New Zealand varieties that have become supermarket staples here in the States.