00:02Having grown up on an orchard, Rudy Stasho knows his apples.
00:07I only know them as rymers, and I've known them as rymers since I was about eight years old.
00:12But he didn't know just how rare these ones might be, until local cider maker Gary Sully noticed them
00:20and alerted a network of apple enthusiasts in his native Wales.
00:25So I jumped out of my chair, so delighted.
00:28Dr Ainsley Rice says rymers were considered extinct until 1995 when his group began finding the odd tree.
00:35Six in Wales, one in India and another in the US.
00:39The last time we found one was 2005.
00:43To add a fourth country to that list, they needed proof.
00:47So he wanted to test our rymers against his rymers.
00:51So Gary collected DNA.
00:53And late last year, the results came back with a perfect match.
00:58I think of all the varieties that we have accredited.
01:01It was the one that was far and away the most clear cut.
01:06Involved the largest number of people and occurred over the longest period of time.
01:11I did get a little bit emotional.
01:13Gary has now been propagating dozens of seedlings, growing the rymer beyond its core.
01:22Oh boy, that is so sharp.
01:24I'm going to talk to you about a couple of people.
01:26I think that's correct.
01:29Okay, come on!
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