I’d begged my parents to set up a plastic tree in our small home. My dad, the only cook in the family, would whip up a whole Christmas dinner infused with Chinese ... word for apple in Mandarin ...

A lost apple variety has been rediscovered on the Salmon River homestead of a famous 19th century Chinese American ... E.J. Brandt took samples from apple trees on the ranch in 2019.

It is an old tree that aptly sits in the back garden of a museum opened to document and preserve Bendigo's Chinese heritage - a living, growing exhibit that occasionally still offers fruit.