Cameo?
Comments: Just finished eating one of your apples. The label says it is a Cameo 3066. Great apple, but never heard of it, what is it’s blood-lines. Great site. Thanks. Bill, The Cameo was found about ten years ago in Cashmere, WA as a chance seedling. It grew in the place of a dead red delicious tree, and was cultivated as a red delicious. The farmer discovered that it wasn’t a red, and paid close attention to it. The parent was either a red delicious or a golden delicious. This was determined because the orchard only had those two varieties in it. Cameo is not the original name. It had to be changed because of trademark infringements. I can’t remember the original name. It eats and looks like an old common red, but stores much better. It has to be multiple picked when the tree fills out and shading occurs in the inside and lower portions of the tree. The maturity indicators used are the same as what is commonly used for red delicious. It tends to grow huge fruit, so we wait till late
