I pulled out some of my backup scion wood to dip it in a bleach solution like I always do and when the wood was still wet I snapped a photo.you can really see the fuzz but it's like peach fuzz.

This is common to many apples, ID will be impossible until you post photos of the fruit. Try to include a half dozen examples, and also state the time of ripening, taste, texture, and keeping ability. Even then you may get six guesses, and all six may say the other guesses may be right also.

Thanks applenut I was afraid of that I was hoping that heavy fur / fuzz on the young branches would be a dead giveaway to someone. The full grown tree is very old and I can see partial trunk death occurring and it has all the signs of just a few years left in it. I will document as much as I can about it to try to get proper identification. I was hoping it would be as clear to someone as the black bark on Arkansas black being that or Ben Davis for example. Some apples such as wolf river I have eaten but am not intimately familiar with growing so I was hoping that fur on these scions would be in the name ...thinking maybe fur might be wolf etc.. you get the idea. Cox orange pippin is orange because the old timers had a way of kind of calling things what they were.

There are few scions that are distinctive enough to tell the variety from. Also the same variety can produce scions with vastly different looks depending on climate, nutrients, vigor, etc.

Scott

New to grafting myself, last year I thought I had a problem with fuzzy scions too. Come to find out that they naturally are like that with some varieties. They get that way more so closer to silver tip and not when they were harvested.

Wolf River apples are so called because the original tree was found near the Wolf River in Wisconsin.

Thanks Valgor for the info on wolf river. I will wait patiently and gather more information on these apples over the summer.