Macintosh Apple Tree Producing White Apples

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forloveford Lethbridge, Canada(Zone 3b) Sep 21, 2014

We have lived in the house for four years but the tree is about 30 years old. We have been picking apples off this tree every year. This year we are getting a bumper crop so we have been outside picking apples and windfalls every day. Yesterday my husband brought in this white apple, I would love to add a picture but I cant right now. Anyways, the skin is very white not greenish or yellow but white and very thin, the flesh is a bit softer than the red apples that came from the same tree (even the same branch) and it is sweeter with no tartness that is so characteristic of a Macintosh. First I though maybe it was a stray graft and we got a whole new variety of apple so I searched the tree and the branch they came off of but it was an old branch with no graft or bud graft marks to speak of and there were the usual red apples growing right along side these strange white ones. So I though, well maybe these few apples didn't get enough sun so again I checked the location of the apples and sure enough they got as much sun as the rest of the apples in that area. So, now I am puzzled and I tried looking online to see if this kind of thing can happen, perhaps a genetic variance? There is no info on this crazy thing so has anyone heard of this or know why its happening? I cant stress enough how totally different these two apples look and taste from each other.

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