2 Coloradans' 20-Year Search For Extinct Fruit -- The Colorado Orange Apple -- Finally Pays Off
2 Coloradans' 20-Year Search For Extinct Fruit -- The Colorado Orange Apple -- Finally Pays Off

On a crisp December afternoon, as the sun slowly fell behind the nearby Sawatch Range, Addie and Jude Schuenemeyer stared at a nearly dead tree, a few apples dangling off its last living branch.