Red Fred

New variety of apple discovered by Wiltshire runner

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Archie Thomas stumbled across solitary windfall fruit that could be cross between cultivated apple and European crab apple

A chance find of an apple on a woodland run has led one nature lover to discover a new variety that he hopes to propagate and name.

Archie Thomas, who lives in the Nadder valley in Wiltshire, stumbled across a solitary windfall apple on a wooded trackway alongside a large area of ancient woodland near his home this month.

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