Hutchins Farm reports that this apple, a sport (apparently) of Empire , has no name. Nature abhors a vacuum, so we will use Hutchins's home-grown appellation. * This sport is very large and moderately ribbed, with a red blush that is mostly streaky over a bright yellow-green. Many small light lenticels decorate the blush, which manages to be quite dark in places, and as the photo shows there are some jagged swaths of what I take to be russet. (Or perhaps it is something else?)
An amateur explores the pomaceous fruit